Top 100 You Have To Be Quotes
#1. I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.
Bruce Springsteen
#2. When you love someone, you have to be with them, don't you? To be part of their life, to have them be part of yours.
Glory in Death
J.D. Robb
#3. I'm not gay, but I don't think you have to be gay to have a gay hero. Growing up, Alan Turing was certainly mine. I'm also not the greatest mathematician of my generation. We have lots of biographical differences, but nonetheless, I always identified with him so much.
Graham Moore
#4. People change, couples change, and you have to be able to accept what is coming without trying to hang on things that you had before that they may disappear but they may transform into something that is even better.
Antonio Banderas
#5. It's not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.
T. Harv Eker
#6. You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.
Mario Batali
#7. I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.
J. C. Watts
#8. People fucking love their own opinions and are all too happy to throw 'em at you, whether you ask or not. You have to be happy with yourself.
Kylie Scott
#9. I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.
Pamela Anderson
#10. People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.
Bryan Batt
#11. We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.
Eva Burrows
#12. The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible to be old, unemployed, uneducated, lazy - even halt, deaf, dumb, and blind-and still be excessively rich. But you have to be in on the secret, and the poor by definition are not.
Louis O. Kelso
#13. It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.
Brian P. Cleary
#14. You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them.
Kelly Cutrone
#15. If you're a content brand, you have to be in every place your audience is. Sometimes your audience is on the couch and wants to watch a 30-minute show, and sometimes they're checking their Facebook feed and want to see something that's only a minute long.
Ricky Van Veen
#16. We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#17. To sparkle its enough to be a Star, but to shine you have to be at Sky.
Zeeshan Ahmed
#18. You're so charming you make us forget that you have to be a serial killer on the inside to do what you do to us. Put us in your plays, warts and all, showing us off like we're some sort of sideshow freaks.
Lauren Groff
#19. With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.
Elon Musk
#20. I don't ever want to become Bill Maher where I have to find some strong opinion on something just because it's in the news. That's the guy that comes off like you have to be angry every week about new topics and snotty about something. That's what I'm trying to avoid.
Doug Stanhope
#21. If you want the little luxuries of life you have to be prepared to pay for them.
Harry Harrison
#22. The thing is, sometimes you have to be brave and say who you are and how you feel. Even if you don't know how you're going to do it. You just have to take a deep breath, and decide to start.
Abigail Tarttelin
#23. Everyone wants to win. But to truly succeed - whether it is at a sport or at your job or in life - you have to be willing to do the hard work, overcome the challenges, and make the sacrifices it takes to be the best at what you do.
Ronda Rousey
#24. Doing risk sport had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you're right on the edge, but you don't go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means.
Yvon Chouinard
#25. You know you're mine, don't you?" he muttered. "You have to be. You just have to be.
Thea Harrison
#26. Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.
David Farland
#27. Doubt undermines the truth your heart senses." ...
"Search your heart," she whispered. "The answers are there, waiting. You have to be brave enough to see them.
Donna Grant
#28. You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.
Lyle Lovett
#29. Whatever you have is gonna die and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride the waves.
Will Smith
#30. If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
Marc Newson
#31. Alex, you have to be in there. I know you. My
heart would not be beating if you were truly gone.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#32. If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.
Amanda Palmer
#33. I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.
Emeril Lagasse
#34. In my case, if one out of five opportunities is interesting enough to work on, maybe one in five of those ends up being worth doing. That might be a function of risk. That might be a function of price. There are all the variables. But you have to be constantly sorting and choosing and prioritizing.
Sam Zell
#35. Always be a little nicer than you have to be
E. Lockhart
#36. Be the person you want to be, not the person you have to be
Jared Leto
#37. TV is easier: it's all planned out for you, and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up, but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over. To me, that's more pure.
Drew Carey
#38. Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.
Stephen King
#39. You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.
Douglas Conant
#40. People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
Assata Shakur
#41. You have to be a speedy reader because there's so so much to read.
Dr. Seuss
#42. A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
Alan Arkin
#43. You have to be strong enough to stand up for what you believe, even if you are standing alone.
Bohdi Sanders
#44. You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.
William Stafford
#45. Bible tells us we have been forgiven much, so we must love much. Love means forgiveness, and forgiveness means you have to be open to letting God work in your heart and in your mind,
Michelle Lynn Brown
#46. Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#47. You have to be committed or you fall behind, lose out.
Crystal Gayle
#48. I've always got a whole bunch of things in the works. That's sort of the nature of the business. Even when you're doing something you love doing, you have to be plotting and scheming and writing and preparing for what you're going to do when that's finished.
Tom Green
#49. Ask yourself, does this person make me feel good about myself? Do I feel safe, strong and free with this person? Those are the questions you need to ask....You have to be strong to truly be open.
April Sinclair
#50. Anytime you open a business, you have to be effective in promoting whether it's a franchise or not. You'll need to learn to be a Web marketer extraordinaire. There's plenty of material out there.
Dave Ramsey
#51. There's nothing to be said for opposition. You can only talk about things and you can lay your plans. You can't actually achieve very much; you have to be in government for that.
Andrew Mitchell
#52. I've never liked the idea you have to be a certain age to be a pop star. I like the idea that anybody can enter, anybody can compete.
Simon Cowell
#53. You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!
William McNamara
#54. With a teacher it is necessary to be sensitive to their directions; most of the time they won't say much. You have to be still and silent to understand.
Frederick Lenz
#56. I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.
Lupe Fiasco
#57. Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'
Colm Toibin
#58. You need to bury it," Cary tells me. "All of that's over. You have to be here now.
Courtney Summers
#59. To be in the dance bar you have to be young, good looking, able to dance, and comfortable talking to people.
Sonia Faleiro
#60. To do all your own stunts, you have to be so strong.
Margot Robbie
#62. You need to be the one to walk away. Tell me to fuck off, and end it. I'll quit Skin Deep, you find a different bar. I can't ... you have to be the one.
Jamie McGuire
#63. I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.
Werner Herzog
#64. I work out with alot of gay guys at the gym. I do, because my only goal is to get into gay shape. Now, you know what I'm talking about. Gay men are the most ripped kind of ... listen ... I don't know how strong you have to be to blow a guy, but I'm guessin', there is some muscle involved.
Alonzo Bodden
#65. To play by David's rules you have to be desperate. You have to be so bad that you have no choice.
Malcolm Gladwell
#66. One thing I've learned is that the harder your life gets, the gentler you have to be with yourself when you finally get some downtime, or you can't be strong when you need to be.
Karen Marie Moning
#67. Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.
Melissa Etheridge
#68. Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
Narciso Rodriguez
#69. Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.
Win Butler
#70. Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated as such. Stay loose.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
#71. To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling to someone else. You have to be real. Or you have to be a really good storyteller.
Daryl Hall
#72. How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script?
John Rhys-Davies
#73. With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you're parodying.
Craig Ferguson
#74. People were like, "Oh maybe we can change your teeth" and I thought that was going a bit far. You have to be really strong in this job and realise that you are your own boss and if someone tells you to do something, you don't have to do it. I really like my teeth.
Lara Stone
#75. If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.
Joshua Foer
#76. First, in order to build a business, you have to be able to sell because Sales = Income. When income is lacking, it's usually because the owner doesn't like to, doesn't know how to, or is simply reluctant to sell. Without sales, however, you have no income.
Robert Kiyosaki
#77. You have to be confident, if you're not confident you might as well go home.
Derek Jeter
#78. In all successful relationships, the man respects the woman - and it takes a special guy to handle a successful woman. You have to be confident in who you are and what you do.
Laird Hamilton
#79. Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.
Kevin Sessums
#80. Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave.
George Foreman
#81. You get to know them, they get to know you and see if they like you. Then they'll vote on you to become a prospect. You have to be sponsored by a Hells Angel.
Chuck Zito
#82. If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have.
Amber Tamblyn
#83. If you are going to leave message, you have to be able to give enough value or reason to get your voice mail returned.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#85. if you wanna make friends , you have to be hypocrite , but if you wanna have best friends you need to be honest to them
Friends
#86. If you want to be in network marketing, you have to be extremely literate online.
Brian Tracy
#87. You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.
Julia Roberts
#88. As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator.
Marlon James
#89. I love being on the road, but to make a living as a road comic, you have to be on it most weeks out of the year. That's just too much for me. But I would love to be such a successful road comic that I don't have to go on it every week.
Jen Kirkman
#90. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.
Carolyn Murphy
#91. People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.
Steve Schirripa
#92. I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.
Cynthia Ozick
#93. You have to be cautious of eating continuously the same thing. Beef comes to mind right away, and there's nothing wrong with beef, but you've got to do whatever you're doing in moderation. So try to break it up a little bit. Eat some fish or some shellfish at least a couple of times a week.
Emeril Lagasse
#94. You have to be careful of the advice you take.
Paul Haggis
#95. Just because you're bigger doesn't mean you have to be a bully."
"Just because you're a woman doesn't mean I'm going to let you get away with bullshit.
Nalini Singh
#96. To become great, you have to be born great. If you are born again then you are the seed of Abraham. That means you have greatness in you!
Chris Oyakhilome
#97. You have to be able to communicate the vision to the people in your organization so that they know where and how they should direct themselves on a day-to-day basis.
Fred DeLuca
#98. Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.
Michael Eisner
#99. There is a time on every job where you say, Screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.
Jeff Abbott
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