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“A lot of what happens in consensual encounters and in the way we talk to both girls and boys about sex creates a medium in which assault flourishes.”

Way Happens Girl Sex Boys Mediums Encounters Assault Boy And Girl

Author:Peggy Orenstein

“A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!”

Desire Songwriting

Author:Brian Molko

“A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'”

Moments Consciousness Pure Photographer Wow Astonishment Inhale

Author:Joel Meyerowitz

“A lot of what I do as a showrunner is anxiety control. People get nervous when they don't know what's going on, so a big part of my job is making sure everyone has all of the information all of the time.”

People Knows Bigs Jobs Information Anxiety Nervous

Author:Glen Mazzara

“A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upside down. Making it somehow blind.”

Blind Upside Down

Author:Amy Sillman

“A lot of what I do is about being in the moment and I think that's hard for people to get. I like it when things suddenly affect the painting. I mix up this red and it affects the whole painting or this little bit of white falls down there, and something changes the whole nature of the thing. The residue on what happens, that's what's in the paintings.”

People Thinking Littles Hard Whole Moments Happens Fall Bits White Painting Little Bit Red Things Change Falling Down

Author:Julian Schnabel

“A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.”

Done Singers

Author:Boz Scaggs

“A lot of what I know as a filmmaker is because of hockey. That's teamwork, and being able to collaborate with people, and be creative with them, and get the most out of everybody. Everyone's got different talents, and you've got to bring out the best of everybody, and use your strengths and work together, and try and evolve it rather than do what was done before you, and to push into new areas.”

People Knows Trying Different Done Use Able Together Creative Talent Areas Evolve Filmmaker Working Together Teamwork Hockey Be Creative

Author:Gabe Polsky

“A lot of what I'm having to do to get myself weaned from football is really limit what media I allow myself to consume. And it's a big drag. But it's also the only way to kick the habit.”

Way Bigs Media Football Habit Limits Kicks Drag

Author:Steve Almond

“A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.”

People Father Brother Obsessed Dynamics

Author:Martin Scorsese

“A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.”

Years Two Lasts Havens Sexuality Dues Therapy Two Years

Author:Boy George

“A lot of what I've had produced are plays, and I just don't want to do that. It's different than a movie, where you only have to act the scenes the one time, and you have other collaborators helping you make it better, so you don't feel as obsessed with your own mind. Plays you have to do every single night, and the thought of that is agony to me. There are days when you hate your own work, and you don't want to be confronted with that, have it coming out of your mouth or listening to somebody else say it to you. There are days you want to leave the theater and get a drink.”

Mind Different Helping Night Hate Listening Drink Scene Obsessed Hate You

Author:Zoe Kazan

“A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.”

Made Stills Consciousness Moral Virtue Written Morality Discovery Criticism Caught Committed Lust Idols Idolatry Dialectics

Author:Susan Sontag

Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.”

People Feels Differences Musician Inspired Crowds Celebrate Relate Freaky

Author:Sophie Ellis Bextor

“A lot of what is called 'public service' consists of making hoops for other people to jump through. It is a great career for those who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.”

People Feels Political Careers Fulfilled Public Service

Author:Thomas Sowell

Source: Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

“A lot of what is done by the climate lobby is anti-science. But there is some science behind it. Like, there are greenhouse gases, and they do contribute to warming. But if you look at the last, say, 160 years, the first 80 of that period, they went up about four-tenths of a degree. And now, the second 80 that CO2 has increased by, what, 30 percent or something, it's gone up five-tenths of a degree. And there's been in the last 30 or 40 years, there's been no real increase in storms or bad weather.”

Ifs Years Firsts Looks Real Done Lasts Behinds Gone Five Four Periods Degrees Percent Increase Climate Storm Weather Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Co2 Bad Weather

Author:Charles Koch

“A lot of what is famous about film making are the movie stars and what is considered a movie star is a lot of great acting, but also a lot of physical beauty.”

Film Stars Acting Movie Star Physical Beauty

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.”

World Beautiful Struggle Arise

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything different. HR departments often want cookie cutter employees, which inevitably results in cookie cutter solutions.”

Want Different America Culture Results Solutions Filled Corporate Department Employee Cookies Cutters Corporate America Cookie Cutters Antibodies

Author:Nolan Bushnell

“A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.”

Art Together Art Is Empty Just Being Right Place

Author:Bill Viola

“A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.”

Culture Reading Fiction Science Fiction Reactions Teens

Author:Iain Banks

“A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself...”

Talent Internet Gatekeepers

Author:Robert Mankoff

“A lot of what travel teaches us is about letting go, taking the leap, jumping into the unknown, replacing your environment and all its parts for a chance at what happens next.”

Letting Go New Beginnings Risk And Reward Adventure Calls Growth Through Change Jump In Anyway Lesson From Travel Life In Motion Wanderlust Life

Author:Jeff Johns

Source: Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer

“A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.”

Thinking Should Has Beens Moving Used Culture Sex Known Gay Used To Be Eras Camps Mainstream Mainstream Culture Gay Culture

Author:Neil Tennant

“A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way.”

Way Design Experience

Author:Jonathan Ive

“A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.”

Strength Weakness

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

Source: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

“A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America”

America Knowing Weakness Nickels Knowing What To Do

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“a lot of what we know isn't very relevant to our being”

Psychology Loneliness Boredom Meaning Of Life Nonsense Youtube Meaninglessness Waste Of Time

Author:Eric Dodson Robinson

“A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.”

Thinking Supposed To Be Saying And Doing

Author:Boots Riley

“A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.”

Reality Deals Depends Perception Arguing Former Latter

Author:Carrie Vaughn

Source: Kitty's House of Horrors

“A lot of what you do is about how you look. You're a good-looking guy who plays music, and you can't do anything about what happens because of that. If people say, "He's cute. I'm going to go buy his album," hopefully they'll like the music, too.”

People Guy Hopefully Cute

Author:Evan Dando

“A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.”

Choices Interest Written Crazy My Family Family History

Author:Lana Del Rey

“A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.”

Mind Might Leadership Ability White Creative Harder Routine Capability Scholar Collars White Collar

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.”

Novelty

Author:Edward Norton

“A lot of why we become actors is to fill a void that we have and a part of that void is to live out and tell stories that we've lived or that we hope would have been different in our own lives.”

Has Beens Different Stories Actors Void

Author:Eric Balfour

“A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it.”

Thinking Knows Feels Feelings Continuing Spouse Betrayed Widows Deranged

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.”

Men Feels Insecure Being Me

Author:Neil Strauss

“A lot of women are ashamed of their pussies. They think it's not pretty enough. Not the right color. Or the lips are too big or two small. Let me put your fears to rest: There is no such thing as an ugly pussy.”

Self Confidence Ashamed Beauty Quotes Pussy Shame Quotes Body Shaming Vaginas Vagina Quotes Pussy Quotes

Author:Oliver Markus Malloy

Source: Why Creeps Don't Know They're Creeps - What Game of Thrones can teach us about relationships and Hollywood scandals

“A lot of women are in a crazy exercise cycle; they're so afraid they'll gain weight if they stop, and it's especially hard when they get pregnant. What they need to realize is that if you're not exercising so much, you don't have to eat so much, and your body adjusts. It sounds so simple, but you really do have to listen to your body.”

Ifs Needs Hard Body Sound Realizing Simple Crazy Exercise Gains Weight Your Body Cycles Pregnant

Author:Courtney Thorne Smith

“A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.”

World Should Children War Asks Effort Cold Disease Hunger Loyalty Hungry Satisfied Rejects Cold War Betrayed Accompany Humiliated

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly”

Men Seems Term Emotion Violence Harm Monopoly

Author:Dennis Prager

“A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.”

Knows Mean Reason Dark Know How Knowing Not Knowing How To Love

Author:Lil Wayne

“A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.”

Knows Deals Emotion Know How

Author:Picabo Street

“A lot of women don't like when they're sort of fat, but a fat foot is as beautiful as a skinny foot. Think of Greek statues. Look how many people love the foot of the baby! There is something super-charming about the baby foot.”

People Thinking Looks Beautiful Feet Baby Fats Greek Charming Statues Skinny

Author:Christian Louboutin

“A lot of women feel ashamed to be weak.”

Feels Weak Ashamed

Author:Rosie Perez

“A lot of women feel it's a man's world. Some people think all you need to do is marry a rich guy, and you don't need to do anything with your life. I would hate that. I don't care whether he has money or he doesn't, because I don't need it, and that's a good feeling that I don't have to worry about that.”

People Thinking Men World Needs Feels Feelings Care Guy Hate Worry Rich Don't Care I Don't Care Good Feeling

Author:Paris Hilton

“A lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there making good women-roles don't do it, 'cause they're smart and get out.”

Causes Roles Smart Friendly Good Woman

Author:Joan Cusack

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