One Thing Quotes - Page 5

• I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

  Dave Davies

  Thinking, Weakness, Want

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• It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Philosophy, Character, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.

  Hal David

  Falling In Love, Objectivity, Degrees

  "Music Legend Hal David Passes, But His Lyrics Still Resonate" by Brian Levin, J.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.

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• Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

  Jerry Doyle

  Poverty, Vehicle

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.

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• I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.

  Lou Duva

  Order, Want, Fighter

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• For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is interpreted as profound, and in my work for years I've really tried to deal with subjects that are substantial, not just fluffy, but presented in a more playful, approachable kind of way.

  Ellen Forney

  Art, Pain, Thinking

  "Interview: Ellen Forney on Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and 'Marbles'". Interview with Eddie Wright, www.mtv.com. November 28, 2012.

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• One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don't like traveling. I feel like it's a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion.

  Joshua Ferris

  Failing, Terrible, Conclusion

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• Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

  Larry Flynt

  Taken, Expression, Years

  "Publisher Larry Flynt". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. April 22, 2011.

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• I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

  Sky Ferreira

  Writing, Different, Type

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The number one thing I look for in a man is integrity. A man who does what he says he's going to do.

  Summer Glau

  Integrity, Men, Numbers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

  Bede Griffiths

  Mother, Children, Giving Up

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• It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

  Ira Glass

  Fun, Loud, Carver

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

  Jeff Goodell

  Giving Up, Believe, America

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• My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mom, Jobs, Nuts

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• It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.

  Johnny Galecki

  Fall, Passion, Tunnels

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• As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.

  Marla Gibbs

  Horizon, Want, Intention

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better, but things could always be worse.

  Marla Gibbs

  Complaining

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• If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Thinking, Example, Wasting My Time

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• The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.

  Sergio Aragones

  Book, Stories, Pages

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• One thing I've been doing since I was a little kid and that's score touchdowns so if somebody needs somebody to get in the red zone and do some work, I could probably still do that pretty well.

  Shaun Alexander

  Kids, Needs, Littles

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• One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Past, Violence, Kind

  "Our media must give Muslims the chance to debate with each other" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. February 09, 2006.

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• I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.

  Atom Egoyan

  Mean, Actors, May

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that's really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Art, Gun, Dying

  "Megalyn Echikunwoke Talks Showtime’s HOUSE OF LIES, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and NBC Pilot BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Artist, Thinking, Open Minded

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

  Bobby Fischer

  School, Remember

  "Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, harpers.org. January 1962.

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