Used Quotes - Page 55

I live in New York City, where, if you're in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you're king of the world, because you're in a bubble. So there's no way for me to properly conceive of the attention that the movie gets in a way that doesn't make me confused.

Acting is a weird profession. It's very disquieting, and at the time it just made me so confused. It's only when you step away from a movie for several weeks or months that you start to put things in perspective.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.

it's amazing what you can get used to.

Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

I used to pick Priuses out of the grill of my Hummer.

Diet Coke with lemon - didn't that used to be called Pledge?

Not that I was ever an asshole but I used to be much more of a bulldozer.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

I grew up in Louisiana and I think people get it confused. They assume that I lived in California or that's where I'm from. I worked there, but I didn't live there.

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself; in fact, confused.

Do the things you used to do, and you'll feel the feelings you used to feel.

Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration.

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.

V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more.

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.

The sad fact is that today most of the heads of big businesses in America have become so confused or intimidated that, so far from carrying the free market to argument to the enemy, they fail to defend themselves adequately even when attacked.