“Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.” DifferentPlayBeautifulSupportGoneCollegeNeededGladPianoMusclesScholarshipDifferent ExperiencesFlexing Author:Jamie Foxx
“The craziest thing I've done getting over love is skydiving. I had a really upsetting breakup. When I broke up with my boyfriend I needed to like do something different and so I actually went skydiving to turn over a new page.” DifferentDoneTurnsLove IsNeededPagesBrokeUpsetBreakupMy BoyfriendBroke UpCraziestSkydiving Author:Shay Mitchell
“I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work. I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It's fascinating because you learn a new field each time.” DifferentStudyFieldsMinesNeededPlantFascinatingLandfills Author:Agnes Denes
“I needed to get to know myself and really, really explore music without any pressure to sell it. I wanted to try and not restrain myself at all, so I've been trying to move quite freely between different sounds and genres.” KnowsTryingDifferentWantedMovingSoundNeededPressureSellsGenre Author:Tove Styrke
“One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.” IfsThinkingYearsFirstsDifferentSchoolTogetherJobsTurnsSpaceClassNeededSkillsBuiltProgramGoldTragedyMathPracticalsGradesPreparingMemorialReally CoolSpaceshipsDifferent JobsSpace ProgramSchool YearsPractical Skills Author:Jonathan Nolan
“Even though these are different times, right now we are particularly thinking about what is leadership, and Washington's qualities are as needed today as they were at the founding of this great nation.” ThinkingDifferentTodayNationsQualityNeededRight NowPatriotismFoundingGreat NationsDifferent Times Author:Igor Babailov
“I needed targets, different things to go for on a daily basis—a distance on the treadmill or a weight goal. Without them, I wasn't celebrating myself enough, and I got really good at beating myself up.” DifferentEnoughGoalNeededWeightBasesDistanceCelebrateDifferent ThingsTargetTreadmills Author:Ali Vincent
“I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.” KnowsWritingTryingYearsTwoBookDifferentStoriesFrontsExampleNeededComputerContactDifferent ThingsTwo YearsWriting Every Day Author:Paulo Coelho
“This may sound weird but I miss traveling. I miss the road, seeing different places and being with the dancers and having fun. That feeling of being on the stage, knowing it's your best -- I love that. I needed a break. I needed to be hungry again.” MayDifferentFeelingsFunSoundBreakKnowingSeeingStageMissingNeededHungryHaving FunDancerDifferent Place Author:Britney Spears
“The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard, no one can doubt this again. . . . The authors have put an immense amount of work into collecting the data financial institutions needed if they were to have any chance of making quantitative risk management work.” IfsDifferentChanceDoubtFourRiskDangerousAmountNeededManagementInstitutionsUniversityFinancialFinanceThanksDataImmenseMasterpieceCollectingHarvardRisk ManagementFinancial InstitutionsKennethMaryland Author:Martin Wolf
“It was easy to blame other people for treating me in ways I didn't like, but now I was seeing that I was the one at fault. The only way you can be mistreated is by allowing yourself to be mistreated, and that was something I did over and over again. Somehow, I needed to find that glimmer of self-respect, buried deep inside, that would allow me to say: I am never going to let that happen to me again. I needed to learn how to stand up for myself in a different way, but I didn't know how.” PeopleKnowsWayDifferentSelfHappensEasyKnow HowSeeingNeededBlameFaultsDifferent WaysSelf RespectAllowingBuriedDeep InsideMistreated Author:Jennifer Lopez
“Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.” DifferentPlayPiecesNeededInterpretationDifferent Interpretations Author:Tobsha Learner
“I had an unorthodox high-school experience; I shifted around to different schools. When I got to college and met Larry Sacharow, who ran the theatre department [at Fordham University in NYC], he was the first person to say ‘I believe in you.’ At that point, I just needed someone to say ‘I see you, I get you, let’s go.’ It’s an amazing thing to borrow someone else’s confidence in you; it can change your life.” FirstsBelievePersonsDifferentSchoolI BelieveCollegeNeededMetsHigh SchoolUniversityI Believe InTheatreRanDepartmentBelieve In YouChanging Your LifeAmazing ThingsFirst PersonLarryNycUnorthodoxI Believe In YouNeeded SomeoneSchool Experience Author:Taylor Schilling
“How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.” WorldDifferentNovelHeroNeededDetectivesCosy Author:Orhan Pamuk
“I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.” DifferentBreakNeededWeaponsBreak Through Author:Akio Morita
“Kerry is well on his way to reaching his magic number of 2,162. That's the total number of delegates he needs to win the Democratic nomination. See for President Bush it's different - his magic number is 5. That's the number of Supreme Court judges needed to win.” WayNeedsWellsDifferentWinningPresidentNumbersMagicJudgingNeededCourtDemocraticSupremeReachingSupreme CourtPresident BushNominationsDelegatesCourt Judges Author:Jay Leno
“Here's the beauty of a camera: you don't have to come up with words for what you're looking at... Maybe another angle is needed sometimes. When we're burned out from writing, we can photograph or draw, look at the world in a different way, and photographers could try writing what they see.” WorldWayWritingTryingLooksDifferentSometimesNeededDrawsCamerasPhotographerPhotographCome UpDifferent WaysBurnedAngleBurned Out Author:Barbara Abercrombie
“Traditionally, digital projects, when you project them, they get really washed out. It's complicated stuff with gamma, but basically your blacks get very milky and the colors get very weak, and we made so many different versions of it to just pump more color into it, so it would look just as good in the theater as it does on your screen at home. And color was my constant whine. It needed to be very oversaturated.” LooksDoeMadeDifferentHomeStuffColorNeededProjectsWeakTheaterConstantComplicatedScreensVersionsDigitalGet RealPumps Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“I used to be the kind of person who needed to have a lot of people around. That's where I found my serenity. I needed to have everyone around so I could have my hands and my mind in different places because that's what would calm me down. But now, I just want to be by myself. It's a good but scary place to be.” PeopleWantMindKindPersonsDifferentHandsUsedFoundNeededCalmScaryUsed To BeSerenityDifferent Place Author:Jessica Simpson
“My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history projects so that audiences can read them. It's important that researchers have many different tools available to study people's lives and the cultures we live in. I think oral history is a most needed and uniquely important strategy.” PeopleThinkingWritingImportantBookDifferentUseCultureUnderstandingAudienceStudyNeededProjectsResearchToolsMethodStrategyAvailableResearchersQualitativeOral History Author:Patricia Leavy
“I felt my personal life was not what it should be. It had nothing to do with Mr. Show - I'm monstrously appreciative and understand what it did for me and to me - but after four years, I just felt like I needed to do something else. I guess I wanted to be in a different place, physically.” ShouldYearsDifferentShowsWantedFeltFourNeededFour YearsPersonal LifeDifferent PlaceAppreciativeMr Show Author:Bob Odenkirk
“I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.” DifferentNightThreeReadingMiddleNeededPhonesTalesCyclingMiddle Of The NightInsomniacCanterburyCanterbury Tales Author:Rick Moody
“The lack of quality dance music and the fact that here in the United States, house music is not seen as anything viable by the music industry. I figured that this might be another shot at the industry looking at the possibilities of house music and giving it a little bit more legitimacy than what they give it. It's a host of different things, but it's something that I needed to say musically.” GivingLittlesDifferentStatesFactsMightHouseBitsUnitedQualityUnited StatesPossibilityIndustryNeededLittle BitMusic IsShotsDifferent ThingsHostMusic IndustryLegitimacyDance MusicHouse Music Author:Frankie Knuckles
“It's not like you're closing the old doors and that investigators working away in a laboratories on a unique hypothesis are no longer needed. My gosh, they are indeed. But this becomes a real engine for hypothesis generation and even for proof if you have interventions that you can carry out in this kind of large scale and conduct them in a rigorous way. I guess, yeah, it's different. But it's different in a good way.” IfsWayKindDifferentRealGenerationsDoorsLike YouNeededUniqueYeahProofScalesEnginesHypothesisInterventionClosingLaboratoryGood WayLarge ScaleInvestigators Author:Francis Collins
“I left Stone Sour in '97 because, by that time, we'd been together for about five years and I was kind of getting to the point where I wanted to do something different. I loved the music that we did and I loved the guys that I was with, but I was 24 and just felt like I needed to go and try something different so I didn't get stuck where I was, you know, just doing the same thing. And, coincidentally, that's when Slipknot came and asked me to join. I'd never done anything like Slipknot up until then, so I was like, "Okay, we'll try this and we'll see what happens." And it worked out.” KnowsTryingYearsKindDifferentDoneHappensWantedTogetherGuyLeftFeltFiveNeededStonesOkayStuckFive YearsSourStone Sour Author:Corey Taylor
“Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.” DifferentPlayHandsSchoolGirlFoundFatherLanguageDecisionClassRichTakenNeededMovedMoved OnShakespeare's Plays Author:Felicity Kendal
“I got hooked up with the NBA Nation and the next thing I knew I was judging the Sprite Slam Dunk Showdown. They needed somebody who can travel on the weekends and go up to eight different cities.” DifferentNextNationsCitiesJudgingNeededEightNbaWeekendHookedSlamSlam DunkShowdowns Author:Darryl Dawkins
“When we came to America, the movies here needed a "new wave." European films looked totally different than American movies, which were these lush, glossy pictures with this elaborate production design.” DifferentAmericaFilmDesignNeededWaveProductionsAmerican MovieLushProduction Design Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.” IfsDifferentGuyThreeFatherMorningNeededAreasDoctorsPatientGet UpGentleHumanistOld FashionedGpsGreat Guy Author:Roselee Goldberg
“All kids are different, even when they come from you and theoretically have the same culture. Some of my kids had been more outgoing and had an easy time at school. Others were more shy and needed more support. As a parent you are very aware of these differences and are not treating them all the same, given who they are as people.” PeopleDifferentKidsSchoolCultureGivenEasyParentDifferencesSupportNeededShyOutgoing Author:Pedro Noguera
“I used to ask myself why American universities are financed through endowments. Now I know: During the early days of America, the state was poor and when citizens wanted to set something up, they needed to collect money themselves. Historically, this was different in Europe. There used to be a strong state, a monarch or a king. He provided money.” KnowsDifferentStatesWantedAmericaUsedAsksStrongPoorKingsNeededCitizensEuropeUniversityUsed To BeMonarchsEndowmentAmerican Universities Author:Zhang Xin
“I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut way that I could not entertain those thoughts of pleasing people and write this book - that it would be a very different book. Without really sort of investigating that instinct, which I'm glad for, I just made a conscious decision to put blinders on and not think about anything and put it all in. And I did. I put everything in. I had to look at the whole picture to see what I needed.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWritingLooksMadeBookDifferentEnoughWholeWould BeDecisionNeededConsciousUnderstoodInstinctGladGutsInvestigatingBlindersWhole PictureDifferent BooksPleasing People Author:Melissa Febos
“We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of revealing some information to our main character. So we chose to represent it as these sort of beautiful little snow globes, which kind of, weirdly, that's the way we think of memories - at least, most of the folks that we talked to. You think of these memories as being very pure and absolute and unchanging. That's not actually real life.” IfsThinkingWayKindLittlesDifferentRealCharacterBeautifulFilmMemoriesInformationNeededPureAbsolutesFolksReal LifeSnowPlotDevicesDifferent KindsGlobesRevealingThink Of MeUnchangingMain Characters Author:Pete Docter
“It's interesting because when David Fincher was making "Fight Club," he said, "It's a romance." And it really is. Almost everything I ever write is just a romance. And that needed to be sort of pointed up at the end of "Fight Club." The film has a very different ending than the book does.” WritingDoeSaidBookDifferentEndsFilmRomanceFightingInterestingNeededClubs Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“The psychology for the person who's actually doing it is completely different. I think I probably needed to put that [hired-hand] psychology in my own head to be able to do the job. Otherwise it would just be too scary. People outside make it much bigger than me. I'm not saying in my head, "Oh, my god, what an amazing idea!" It scares me if I would do that.” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsIdeasDifferentHandsAbleJobsMy OwnPsychologyNeededBiggerScaryScareScary People Author:Raf Simons
“If there are to be appropriate judgments about what questions are significant, you need both the informed views of scientists who know what has been achieved and what future developments are promising and the reflective judgments of representatives of different groups who can identify what kinds of information are most urgently needed.” IfsKnowsNeedsKindHas BeensDifferentViewsGroupsInformationDevelopmentNeededJudgmentScientistSignificantAppropriateRepresentativesFuture Development Author:Philip Kitcher
“There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving people; we are not fallen people. We are not a little lower than the angels. We're a little higher than the apes. It's a very different perspective.” PeopleLittlesDifferentSinPerfectPerspectiveNeededHigherAngelEvolveFallenApesDifferent Perspective Author:John Shelby Spong
“I fell in love with that movie [Now You See Me]. I liked the actors. I thought it was an interesting world. When they called me with the opportunity to direct the next one, the first question I needed to address was, what are we going to do to make it different? How can I add something to the franchise? If I can't add anything, then there's no reason for me to do it.” IfsWorldFirstsI CanDifferentReasonNextActorsOpportunityInterestingNeededDirectAddAddressesNo ReasonThe Next One Author:Jon M. Chu
“The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.” DifferentBodyNeededCrisisUnionsRecognitionTransformedEuropean UnionEurozone Author:David Cameron
“Each country has its own particular features, its own traditions that find their reflection today and will find it in future. There are such traditions in Russia but it is not a question of a strong figure, although a strong figure is needed in power, it is a question of what is implied by this term. It is one thing if it is a person with dictatorial tendencies. But if it is a fair leader, who acts within the law and in the interests of a vast majority of society, who acts coherently and is guided by principles, it is a completely different matter.” IfsPersonsDifferentCountryMatterTodayLawStrongTermInterestLeaderPrinciplesOne ThingFiguresParticularNeededReflectionFairsTraditionMajorityRussiaTendenciesFeaturesImplied Author:Vladimir Putin
“It's one of those things where the book has all these stars that burn really bright that you hang onto and they're all saying, 'This is The Girl on the Train experience.' All those stars or hooks needed to be in the film, but sometimes they needed to be a bit different. It's important when adapting such a popular book to hit all those points but also break out expectations without slaughtering the book. And that was, for me, the joy of adapting the book.” ImportantBookDifferentSometimesFilmJoyGirlStarsBitsBreakNeededExpectationsTrainHookBreak OutAdaptingPopular Book Author:Erin Cressida Wilson
“[Attorney General] would have to be something where I felt he really needed me and not that I'd be the only one that could do it, but maybe that I could do it a little bit different or a little bit better than somebody else.” LittlesDifferentFeltBitsNeededLittle BitAttorney Author:George Stephanopoulos
“I'm a utility infielder. There's always somebody who is better at a specific task than I am, but I can pitch in at a bunch of different things as needed.” I CanDifferentNeededTasksBunchDifferent ThingsUtility Author:Gabe Newell
“We needed to do "Community Project" to feel comfortable doing our own thing, and then "That's It That's All" was this experiment with camera technology and shooting snowboarding a little differently. "Art of Flight" was that dream of "That's it That's All" realized. Then we didn't want to make an "Art of Flight 2," so we stepped back and tried to take a different approach to create a more multi-faceted film. "The Fourth Phase" has more of a storyline, and it was much more personal for me.” WantFeelsLittlesArtDifferentDreamFilmCommunityTechnologyNeededComfortableProjectsApproachCamerasExperimentsFlightShootingFourthPhasesStorylineSnowboardingDifferent Approach Author:Travis Rice
“My decision was, and the decision of the different institutions, and the decision of the different officials in Syria - I'm on top of them - was to have dialogue, to fight terrorists, and to reform as a response at the very beginning, response to the allegations, let's say, at that time, that they needed reform in Syria, we responded.” DifferentFightingDecisionNeededInstitutionsResponseTerroristDialogueReformOfficialsSyriaAllegations Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Distinguish between the work and the job title. When I was leaving school in the early 1970s, many people wanted to be journalists, carrying out investigative reporting for print newspapers. Print newspapers may not exist in twenty years. But good thinking and good writing about issues that need to be reported and investigated will always be needed; but where this happens, what it is called, and who pays for it may be quite different than could have been envisioned by the great journalists of the past.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWritingYearsMayHas BeensDifferentHappensWantedSchoolJobsPastPayIssuesNeededTwentiesLeavingNewspapersJournalistTitlesPrintCould Have BeenGood WritingGood ThinkingJob TitlesLeaving School Author:Howard Gardner
“I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.” YearsDifferentSometimesAbleJobsOrderFatherLossIssuesNeededDrinkMouthsLettersAngerForgivingResolveGood JobAlcoholicsDrankLove Letter Author:Gary Oldman