“When I first met Laurence I was Keanu's [Reeves] stunt double on the first Matrix. So, a little evolution there with career status. But then cut to the thirteen/fourteen years later where now I'm asking Laurence Fishburne to trust my directorial capacity [in John Wick 2].” YearsFirstsLittlesCareersCuttingEvolutionMetsCapacityAskingFourteenThirteen Author:Chad Stahelski
“I met Cory Bernardi in Holland. I believe it might be more difficult for him to meet me now. I think he doesn't intend to do that. I understand that this is politics. The friend from yesterday can have an argument not to see you tomorrow. It's sad but true.” ThinkingBelieveMightI BelieveDifficultTomorrowMetsArgumentYesterdaySad But TrueHolland Author:Geert Wilders
“Regardless of how insane it might be, when you dig somebody you just met and you send that first text, goddamn, it's an eternity before you get the reply back.” FirstsMightMetsEternityInsane Author:Jay Baruchel
“I've never met Hans Rosling, but I just knew him through his many YouTube videos, and they were absolute dynamite.” MetsAbsolutesVideoYoutubeDynamite Author:Keith Devlin
“I met Kaz in the mid 1980s when we invited him and other artists to the Ojai Foundation with Thich Nhat Hanh. I felt an instant connection with him, and since that time we have collaborated on many projects and have become good friends and allies in the work of nonviolence.” ArtistFeltMetsProjectsConnectionsFoundationInstantAlliesNonviolenceGood FriendInvitedThich Nhat HanhInstant Connection Author:Joan Halifax
“I did Popeye and Ronald Reagan and everybody was saying things like "yeah he's a cute little kid" but I started, little by little, telling stories about people I'd met and expanded my voices.” PeopleLittlesStoriesKidsVoiceMetsYeahCuteLittle KidTelling StoriesPopeye Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“I've met Nelson Mandela a couple of times and it was an unbelievable experience on both occasions; the most amazing moment of my life.” MomentsCoupleMetsOccasionsUnbelievableMost AmazingNelson Author:Andre Nel
“I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.” PeopleKnowsWantTryingFailingMetsTerrifiedJacketsFear Of Failing Author:J. K. Rowling
“I saw all that [white trash] growing up in Alabama and Georgia. I had a group of country cousins and we'd go visit them when I was a kid. They lived on a red dirt Georgia back road, in a shack, with twelve kids. Farmers. No electricity, they had a well on their back porch, but they had nothing, yet they were the happiest, freest people I'd ever met. I loved to visit them. Great sense of humor, and they kept up with all the latest music, country, rockabilly, that stuff. Great food they grew in the fields and canned. Happy people.” PeopleWellsCountryKidsStuffWhiteGrowing UpSawsGrowingGroupsFieldsGrewMetsRedSense Of HumorFarmersTwelveDirtElectricityCousinTrashGeorgiaAlabamaHappy PeoplePorchShackGreat FoodWhite TrashRockabillyBack Roads Author:Steve Young
“There was sort of a negative association with the military. Maybe growing up in the South or being in a family with members of the military, I didn't have that negative connotation, but I did have this 'separate' connotation. I was ashamed to realize I had it and did not realize I had it until I was [in Iraq]. I was so impressed by the people I met over there and there was just a sense of connection and gratitude towards those people.” PeopleRealizingGrowing UpGrowingMilitaryGratitudeMetsMembersNegativeConnectionsSouthIraqAshamedAssociationImpressedConnotation Author:Stephen Colbert
“[Warren Buffett ] met with all sorts of different groups about a lot of different things, but yes, he took the time, he listened and he wanted to understand about some of the different diseases and the strength of the American role in doing all these things.” DifferentWantedRolesGroupsMetsDiseaseDifferent ThingsBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Bill Gates
“Melinda [Gates] has been my partner in raising the kids and I went from before I met her, intentionally having an unbalanced life, to having a more balanced life with all sorts of fun things that she and I do together.” Has BeensKidsTogetherFunMetsPartnersGatesBalancedBalanced LifeFun ThingsUnbalanced Author:Bill Gates
“I had gone to - that was my second time going to the mosque. And then at that time we met [with my wife], she was Muslim and - but was at a point where - because her father is an imam and her mother, though, is a convert, but she was basically raised Muslim. And she was at that point where she was deciding or trying to come to terms with her own relationship with Islam and how to embrace that for herself. So I was sort of trying to come walk toward it.” TryingMotherFatherTermWalksGoneWifeMetsEmbraceRaisedIslamMy WifeMosques Author:Mahershala Ali
“I think it's because if I have the time I take the time to sign every autograph I can after a show. I'll go out of my way when a lot of other guys wouldn't do this. Things like that create so much longevity in your career because that guy or girl you met that night will go home and talk about how cool Jeff Hardy was that night and then that makes their friends want to come out to the show next time you're in town.” IfsThinkingWayWantI CanShowsHomeNightGuyGirlNextCareersMetsTownsMy WayLongevityNext TimeThat GuyOther GuysAutographsHardy Author:Jeff Hardy
“Magic Johnson is my biggest role model and I am his biggest fan. I actually met him recently and ran up to him and said, "man, I am your biggest fan, I'm P.K. Subban," and he said "I know who you are," and I was like, "what!" I was blown away just standing there talking to him and he was so nice.” KnowsMenSaidTalkingRolesNiceMagicFansMetsModelsStandingWho You AreRanRole ModelsJohnsonStanding ThereBlown AwayBiggest FanTalking To Him Author:P. K. Subban
“Therefore, we must not look at the African people, even before they met whites, as if they had something unique, which was not to be found in other societies.” PeopleIfsLooksFoundMetsUnique Author:Nelson Mandela
“If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want to disrupt.” IfsWantForceOne ThingTrumpMetsTraditionPrecedentDisruptive Author:Brian Balogh
“There's a version of Tony [from "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"] that I think could be heightened. Trying to find the balance. A lot of that comes from "Who is he?" I think we've all kind of met that dude. The comic book enthusiast, or someone who gets too excited about things, but his own enthusiasm tends to alienate him. I relate to it because I've seen that guy.” ThinkingWorldFeelsTryingKindBookHomeGuyThis WorldBalanceMetsExcitedVersionsAll KindsEnthusiasmComicRelateComic BookThat Guy Author:Elijah Wood
“We're full of electricity, and the walls and floor of a building contain carbon - the same makeup as a video tape - and I think we give off a huge amount of energy. Some people are able to see that and pick that up. I think almost every person I've met in my life has had some sort of experience that they can't explain, and those fascinate me.” PeopleThinkingGivingPersonsAbleEnergyBuildingHugeWallAmountMetsPicksVideoMakeupTapeElectricityCarbon Author:Peter James
“I'm not going to tell you I know George W. Bush intimately. I'm not going to tell you we're best friends. I'll tell you I met him on a number of occasions. You know what? George W. Bush is a very nice guy. Very funny guy. His wife is a very nice woman; I thought she was a great first lady. George [W.] Bush was the worst president in the history of the United States of America... The issue is not Bernie Sanders. The issue is the Koch brothers. The issue is who owns America.” KnowsFirstsStatesAmericaGuyPresidentUnitedNumbersUnited StatesIssuesNiceWifeWorstBrotherMetsOccasionsUnited States Of AmericaVery NiceFirst LadyNice GuyFunny Guy Author:Bernie Sanders
“When I look back at my paintings, they don't give me a sense of where I was when I first met that guy. They don't give me a sense of what I felt like when I first saw that original source material. They give me a sense of the world that I'm trying to create. And we all just have to deal with that.” WorldGivingTryingFirstsLooksGuyFeltDealsSawsPaintingMaterialsSourceMetsGive MeOriginalsThat Guy Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I'd met Simon [Segars] for the first time in London. He struck me as a quiet, natural-born engineer and an orthodox successor [to East]. He has a home in Silicon Valley, and he said it's just a few minutes' drive away from mine.” FirstsSaidHomeBornNaturalMinutesMinesMetsQuietFirst TimeEastLondonOrthodoxValleysEngineersSiliconSuccessorsSilicon Valley Author:Masayoshi Son
“I got to meet Andy [Hertzfeld], and he sort of opened his life to me. He showed me Palo Alto and we had food together and I met his wife and saw his home. We talked a lot about his experiences, and I just tried to absorb as much about him as I could.” HomeTogetherSawsWifeMets Author:Michael Stuhlbarg
“Because of being married, I've met people and experienced all these little things that have nurtured my life - not so much changed it, just nurtured it in a way that's astounding.” PeopleWayLittlesChangedMetsMarriedLittle ThingsBeing Married Author:Julia Roberts
“I've never met any strong critic of the United States anywhere in the world who gave us any credit for having limit on government.” WorldStatesGovernmentStrongUnitedUnited StatesMetsLimitsCriticsCredit Author:Robert Scheer
“I mean, I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I grew up poor, and I grew up rich. I think some people who have never met me have a misconception that when I was living with my father when he was successful, that I was somehow adversely affected by his success or the money he had and was making at the time.” PeopleThinkingMeanFatherFeltPoorSuccessfulRichGrewMetsGrew UpAffectedMisconception Author:Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
“If an American teenager were to come to Lahore, they'd have wildly different experiences depending on whom they met. They could party and get drunk and smoke hashish with some, while others would say, "Let's get some religious instruction."” IfsDifferentReligiousPartyMetsDrunkSmokeTeenagerInstructionDifferent ExperiencesHashishLahore Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.” ThinkingMenGriefTasteMetsGayGood TimesHaving A Good TimeGay MenIrreverentUnapologetic Author:Kesha
“When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They appeared to me to be islands of genius in the sea of disability. So I've maintained that word picture since that time, of these islands of genius that are so striking and so jarring when you see them, especially in people who have severe disability.” PeopleFirstsAbilitySeaGeniusMetsIslandsDisabilityImpressedSevereYoungstersSavants Author:Darold Treffert
“Love is the essence of All That Is, no matter what we do here, we are met with love. We also feel how our choices were in alignment or out of alignment with that love. We all immediately ascend to the level that we achieved here, to the level of vibration of energy, of awareness, of that love.” FeelsMatterChoicesEnergyLove IsLevelsAwarenessMetsEssenceNo Matter WhatVibrationsAlignmentOur Choices Author:Suzanne Giesemann
“I met [ Samuel L. Jackson ] for the first time on The Today Show. He came out of an elevator. I was promoting A Mighty Wind and he was promoting something else. He said, "I hear we're going to be working together." I said, "On what?" He said, 'The Man.' I hadn't heard his name mentioned before. I made a few calls and found out he had the script and was interested. That was it.” MenFirstsMadeSaidShowsTodayTogetherFoundNamesHeardHe ManWindMetsFirst TimeScriptsWorking TogetherPromotingElevatorsMighty WindSamuel L Jackson Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“The first time on stage is such a blur to me. I remember how it felt more than anything. I remember everything about the day before I went on stage - what I ate, the first person I met in the club, how I felt beforehand - but the actual being on stage is a total blur.” FirstsPersonsRememberFeltStageMetsFirst TimeClubsFirst PersonBlurRemembers Everything Author:Paul F. Tompkins
“I have been around conservatives my entire life. I have never met a single human being, in any place, who wanted to ban contraceptives.” HumansHas BeensWantedHuman BeingsMetsBansContraceptives Author:Ted Cruz
“One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother her whole life and made my grandmother seem present even though I never met her. I couldn't imagine how my mom could go on but she did, she took care of us, she worked two jobs and had four children. She was such a good example of how to conduct oneself in a time of grief. When I lost my husband, I tried to model myself as much as I could on her.” ChildrenMadeTwoWholeSeemsCareJobsMotherLostGriefFourImagineOne ThingExampleMomGoes OnMetsHusbandModelsOur ChildrenOneselfMy MomWhole LifeGrandmotherMy HusbandMy GrandmotherBeltsGood ExamplesTwo Jobs Author:Patti Smith
“In my opinion, peace has not come to America, to Nicaragua, or to El Salvador. A hungry people is a people without peace. If the demands of the people are not met, what kind of peace are we talking about?” PeopleIfsKindAmericaTalkingOpinionMetsDemandHungryNicaraguaEl Salvador Author:Rigoberta Menchu
“The lovers enter into a story together - "this how we met, this is how we were meant for each other" - and then at some point (in my experience, at least), the story splits, and they no longer share it. Then, you either change the story, or you break up. I've always broken up.” StoriesTogetherBreakShareBrokenLoversMetsSplitsBroken Up Author:Melissa Febos
“I met Muslim immigrants in Brooklyn who were swept up in 9-11 raids, held in abusive conditions, beaten, denied rights. That's how things started in Germany. Guantanamo was modeled after what Stalin developed for the Gulag.” RightsConditionsMetsGermanyImmigrantsDeniedBeatenBrooklynAbusiveGuantanamoGulags Author:Naomi Wolf
“We were looking for someone who could get the film [Filth] made at that kind of level, with the finance we wanted, and we spoke to a lot of people. When I met James [McAvoy] in the Soho Hotel with Jon Baird, the director, he looked about ten years old. I thought there's no way he's going to be a forty-year-old divorced alcoholic cop. I thought, really lovely guy, I'll let him and John talk and see if they get on.” PeopleIfsWayYearsKindMadeWantedFilmGuyLevelsMetsDirectorsTenLovelyFinanceHotelFortySpokesCopDivorcedAlcoholicsFilthSohoForty Years Old Author:Irvine Welsh
“I think that when [Charles] Dickens met Nelly [Ternan] it unleashed this sort of carnal, anarchic, cruel energy within him, and literally after she met him he changed his whole life - he separated from [his wife] Catherine, he stopped all the children from seeing her and went on this bitter rampage.” ThinkingChildrenWholeEnergyWifeSeeingChangedMetsWhole LifeBitterDickensUnleashedRampage Author:Felicity Jones
“If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise. If either or both sides insist on getting everything that they want - that is to say 100 percent of their demands to be met, then there can never be a settlement.” IfsWantLongEndsSidesMetsDemandConflictPercentStandingPreparedCompromiseBe PreparedBoth SidesSettlementEither Or Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“I am worried that Americans I have met on my journey across the country, seem very hopeless and are feeling powerless to make change and are feeling passive. I'm not blaming them. But one thing we need at a time like this is for people to feel empowered and angry.” PeopleNeedsFeelsCountryFeelingsSeemsOne ThingJourneyMetsBlameAngryWorriedHopelessPassivePowerlessEmpoweredMy Journey Author:Naomi Wolf
“I've met dedicated people from all sectors of society who are committed to giving children the tools they need for a better future. I'm always impressed by the passionate young leaders I meet. As the pace of change accelerates, so do the challenges we face. However, the chances to solve them increase too.” PeopleNeedsGivingChildrenFacesYoungChallengesChanceLeaderMetsToolsIncreasePassionateCommittedSolvePaceDedicatedImpressedBetter FutureAccelerateChallenges We FacePace Of ChangeYoung Leaders Author:Shakira
“[John Larroquette] is one of the smartest men I've ever met. He's very cerebral and book-smart. He would say things and I'd have to go look them up, thinking, "That can't be true!" And they'd be true.” ThinkingMenLooksBookMetsSmartBeing TrueCerebral Author:Julie Benz
“When Henry Hill [in Goodfellas] got arrested for the first time and Robert DeNiro met him at the courthouse and Henry Hill was really upset, 'cause he thought Robert DeNiro would be really mad at him. And DeNiro comes up to him and he gives him a $100 and he goes, "You got pinched. We all get pinched, but you did it right, you didn't say nothing."” GivingFirstsWould BeCausesMetsFirst TimeMadCome UpHillsUpsetArrestedCourthousesMad At Him Author:Jon Stewart
“We need to identify the least effective or ineffective teachers and for those people we need to either quickly accelerate their practice or move them out of the profession. That's what I believe and quite frankly I have never met anybody at least to my face who said they disagree with that notion.” PeopleNeedsBelieveSaidFacesMovingI BelievePracticeTeacherMetsNotionProfessionDisagreeAccelerate Author:Michelle Rhee
“We live in a state-centric world faced with global-scale problems that cannot be met by the actions of single states, no matter how powerful, if assessed from the perspective of military capabilities.” IfsWorldMatterStatesProblemActionPowerfulMilitaryPerspectiveMetsScalesCapability Author:Richard A. Falk
“If I can do anything in this time of my career, I want to make it easier for other actresses and girls who are growing up to go, 'I get to be a part of a comedy or an action film or a romantic comedy or a thriller or just a romance, without having to wind up with someone to complete us.' I complete me. I just got lucky that, after I completed myself, I met someone who could tolerate me.” IfsWantI CanActionFilmRomanceGirlCan DoCareersGrowing UpComedyGrowingWindEasierMetsLuckyActressesTolerateThrillersAction FilmsComplete Me Author:Sandra Bullock
“You never know if you have met your best friend in life yet. That still may be to come.” IfsKnowsMayStillsMetsYour Best Friend Author:Alan Robertson
“There are millions and millions of Sufis who have existed in Islamic history and have the deepest impact on every aspect of Islamic culture and civilization to philosophy to art to science to social structure to economics who have not met the destiny of al-Hallaj.” ArtPhilosophyCultureSocialDestinyMillionsCivilizationMetsAspectEconomicsImpactStructureIslamicAlsSufiSocial StructureIslamic Culture Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was to act as kind of an antithesis to this, and he paid for it with his life, and he was very happy to do so. He smiled as he went to the executioner. That was done because it shook the conscience of the Islamic peoples of that time. But the vast majority, the vast, vast, vast majority of Sufis, they have not met the destiny of al-Hallaj. They have spoken about reaching "the Truth" and there is nothing dangerous about it.” WorldKindDoneDestinySpecialDangerousMetsConscienceFunctionPaidMajorityLuxuryIslamicReachingAlsVery HappySufiAntithesisExecutionersWorldliness Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr