“People always ask me "Son what does it take To reach out and touch your dreams?" To them I always say Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Is it a fire that burns you up inside? How bad do you want it? How bad do you need it? Are you eating, sleeping, dreaming With that one thing on your mind? How bad do you want it? How bad do you need it? Cause if you want it all You've got to lay it all out on the line.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsMindDoeDreamAsksCausesLinesSleepFireOne ThingSonEatingLaysHungryAsk MeYour DreamsReach OutThirsty Author:Tim McGraw
“The people and the warmakers are two distinct groups. We must never say 'we' when discussing the US government's foreign policy. For one thing, the warmakers do not care about the opinions of the majority of Americans. It is silly and embarrassing for Americans to speak of 'we' when discussing their government's foreign policy, as if their input were necessary to or desired by those who make war.” PeopleIfsTwoWarGovernmentCareSpeakOpinionOne ThingGroupsPolicyMajoritySillyForeign PolicyEmbarrassingDiscussingInput Author:Llewellyn Rockwell
“A great defensive effort. The one thing we have to do is make it hard for people to beat us. We're not worried about winning and losing, we just have to make the game hard” PeopleHardGamesWinningEffortOne ThingLosingBeatsWorriedWinning And Losing Author:John Calipari
“I really enjoy what I do, and I'm very grateful to be given an opportunity to do it. That's one thing that people can say about me.” PeopleOpportunityGivenEnjoyOne ThingGrateful Author:Walton Goggins
“The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.” PeopleKindCertainInterestingGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsOne ThingBecomingAdultsInteresting ThingsOur GenerationBecoming An Adult Author:Paul McCartney
“I'm one of those people for whom success is one thing, but significance is another. If I can have both, I'm living the dream.” PeopleIfsI CanDreamOne ThingSignificanceLiving The Dream Author:Romany Malco
“Getting it off the ground is one thing because it has to do with finding the proper people and the financing, but finding the subject is another thing and this is always for me the most difficult part.” PeopleDifficultOne ThingSubjectsFindingsFinancing Author:Philippe Falardeau
“The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a degree where they're what you would call "delusional."” PeopleBelieveFoundOne ThingDegreesHollywoodTownsDelusional Author:Diablo Cody
“I was an executive before I was a producer, and I've seen franchise fever grow, over the course of my career. The one thing that people always forget is that it's only a franchise if audiences really want to see more of it. It's up to them. It's really not up to us.” PeopleIfsWantCoursesGrowsForgetCareersAudienceOne ThingProducersExecutivesFever Author:Nina Jacobson
“To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind... Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.” PeopleMindOur LivesOne ThingWillingAspectWilling To Change Author:Bill Crawford
“Most people past college age are not atheists. It's too hard to be in society, for one thing. Because you don't get any days off. And if you're an agnostic you don't know whether you get them off or not.” PeopleIfsKnowsHardAgePastOne ThingCollegeAtheistAgnosticDays Off Author:Mort Sahl
“It never occurred to them that God may have provided the world with a vast array of very brainy medical types for the very reason of solving problems such as theirs. However, there is one thing that the medical profession cannot do and that is save people from being idiots.” PeopleWorldMayReasonProblemOne ThingTypeProfessionMedicalIdiotProblem SolvingMedical Profession Book:Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel Source: Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel
“It's just nice to be able to communicate and be able to identify with a lot of different cultures. I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensIdeasDifferentWould BeAbleCultureSpeakLanguageKnownNiceOne ThingCommunicateNo IdeaJust OnePrivilegedDifferent Cultures Author:Cary Fukunaga
“There are times when you get frustrated, but the one thing you always focus on is treating people well. You just cannot storm off and freak out.” PeopleWellsFocusOne ThingStormFreakFrustrated Author:Taylor Swift
“That's one thing about my shows. I tell people, I'm not a comedian, I'm just a really funny reporter. I put my life out there and make it entertaining. By putting it out there, it helps me to deal with it, you know, so I don't snap and so I don't go off the handle when I get home.” PeopleKnowsHelpingShowsHomeDealsOne ThingHandleComedianHelp MeEntertainingReportersSnaps Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made it all his own.” PeopleLittlesMadeFeltBitsOne ThingLittle BitInspiredMade ItBrownEleganceBe InspiredGarlandsSammy DavisSammy Davis Jr Author:Kenny Ortega
“One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.” PeopleHateOne ThingFairsTreatmentLove Or Hate Author:DMX
“This beauty ideal is everywhere. You can't escape it - TV, wallpaper, posters, billboards, magazines. They put on these crazy perceptions about what people should look like. It's really shocking the way everybody is striving for this one thing, this ultimate beauty, but what is it?” PeopleWayShouldLooksOne ThingCrazyTvsPerceptionIdealsUltimateStriveMagazinesShockingPostersBillboards Author:Jurgen Teller
“Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.” PeopleBehindsOne ThingPraiseUnfairShantaram Book:Shantaram Source: Shantaram
“If you make exercise your hobby instead of your enemy it becomes your friend; it's the one thing that will never let you down. It will always be there for you and it will always make you better than you were before. Remember: every time you go to the gym, every time you put the right supplement in your mouth, you're better than you were ten minutes ago. [...] The irony is most people know what to do, they just don't do what they know.” PeopleIfsKnowsRememberEnemyOne ThingMinutesExerciseTenMouthsIronyGymHobbiesBetter Than YouSupplements Author:Sylvester Stallone
“I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.” PeopleI CanHardDonePastAsksOne ThingRegretHonestlyAsk MeAshamedMy PastI Regret Author:Art Alexakis
“I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?” PeopleMeanCareOne ThingMediaFrontsMainstreamWho CaresMtvMainstream Media Author:Sebastian Bach
“Everything comes from one thing, everything comes from the Spirit. Jazz would not exist had it not been for gospel music, the blues would not exist had it not been for spiritual blues, which goes back to slave songs our fore fathers were singing while they were out in the field. So it's all one continuous growth from one group of people. Of course jazz now is played by various cultures and colors around the world. But the stimulus is One Voice.” PeopleWorldSpiritualSpiritSongCultureCoursesFatherGrowthVoiceOne ThingGroupsFieldsColorSingingJazzSlaveVariousAround The WorldStimulusGospel MusicContinuous Growth Author:Ramsey Lewis
“One thing that influenced me in the States when I was doing this recording was American people feeding me things like Arnold Dreyblatt, even things I should've heard back in New Zealand like Peter Jefferies and Jono Lonie 'At Swim 2 Birds.” PeopleShouldStatesOne ThingHeardBirdSwimPeterFeedingNew Zealand Author:Roy Montgomery
“One thing you might suggest to a young band is don't get involved in any kind of long-term contract because everything changes on a bimonthly basis: The way people hear music and access it, the way it is distributed.” PeopleWayKindLongMightYoungTermOne ThingInvolvedBandBasesAccessLong TermContractsThings ChangeGet Involved Author:Eddie Vedder
“Often when I'm on TV, they'll ask what are the three most important things for people to do. I know they want me to say that people should change their light bulbs. I say the number one thing is to organize politically; number two, do some political organizing; number three, get together with your neighbors and organize; and then if you have energy left over from all of that, change the light bulb.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantShouldTwoImportantLightTogetherPoliticalThreeAsksEnergyLeftNumbersOne ThingTvsImportant ThingsNeighborWant MeOrganizeGet TogetherBulbsLight BulbNumber Three Author:Bill McKibben
“One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages.” PeopleDifferentFilmOne ThingTenMessagesThings I LoveEnsemble Author:Morris Chestnut
“I ride a bicycle everywhere I go, the physical strength is obvious, but my mental strength and my capacity to love myself and to love others has definitely expanded. And that's the one thing I need the most in taking on a life of touring and a life of basically being with hundreds of people every day and not exhaust one's energy.” PeopleNeedsEnergyOne ThingCapacityObviousTouringBicycleLove MyselfMental StrengthCapacity To LovePhysical Strength Author:Jason Mraz
“As far as my New York influence, one thing I'm proud of in my career is, I rep Brooklyn, New York all day. But people don't look at my music as New York music. People consider my music underground music.” PeopleLooksCareersOne ThingInfluenceNew YorkProudBrooklynBrooklyn New YorkUnderground Music Author:Talib Kweli
“Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.” PeopleThinkingIdeasHandsBrainOne ThingDesignExpertsGood IdeasEngineeringInventorPersuadingPolymaths Author:James Dyson
“Look. Every partisan in every party has to learn one thing: Sometimes your people are wrong. To paraphrase an old retort, saying "My party, right or wrong" is like saying "My Kennedy, drunk or sober." Credibility is earned, and standing up and saying "Fie!" now and then reinforces your truthfulness.” PeopleLooksSometimesPartyOne ThingStandingDrunkNow And ThenSoberCredibilityTruthfulnessPartisansParaphraseRetorts Author:James Lileks
“People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech. When I started writing, I thought [the language] was telling the story of this country: old people in a young nation, very religious, very conservative, very tight-assed, but also very anarchistic, very open-minded. It's all in the language, and that's one thing that doesn't translate.” PeopleWritingCountryStoriesYoungLanguageNationsReligiousOne ThingSpecialSpeechConservativeIsraelTranslateOld PeopleOpen MindedRegister Author:Etgar Keret
“I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing them, sometimes letting people see them.” PeopleWritingSometimesStoriesOne ThingJust One Author:Damian Barr
“I know that a lot of songwriters write about a break up. It's a really popular topic. I think heartbreak is the number one thing people write about. I could say that's narcissistic somehow because they want everybody to admire how pained they are. But I actually do think there's something beautiful and uplifting about knowing that you're not the only one who is experiencing or has experienced that kind of devastating loss. Everyone's experienced that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantWritingKindBeautifulLossNumbersBreakKnowingOne ThingAdmireUpliftingSongwritersTopicsNarcissisticSomething BeautifulReally PopularDevastating Loss Author:Mirah
“One thing I've discovered is that if you remain in contact with people, if you build longitudinal relationships, if you invest in sources who seem at first like they're uncomfortable or unwilling to talk, if you keep in touch with them, a year later that might yield something much more powerful.” PeopleIfsYearsFirstsSeemsMightPowerfulOne ThingSourceContactUncomfortableYieldUnwilling Author:Sarah Stillman
“One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social media, but people's greatest ambition was to be sponsored by Chipotle or something equivalent to that. It was this weird mix of collaborative, utopian claims and this total acquiescence to commercial imperatives.” PeopleCultureSocialOne ThingMediaAmbitionClaimsSocial MediaEnthusiasmConferencesImperativesUtopianAcquiescenceChipotle Author:Astra Taylor
“One thing I point out is, a lot of people tooting the horn of amateurism, actually, these people were professionals. Some are professors who are employed full time. Others are marketers or business consultants.” PeopleOne ThingProfessorsEmployedHornsMarketersConsultants Author:Astra Taylor
“I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.” PeopleThinkingForgetOne ThingTechnological Author:Annie E. Clark
“One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in challenges.” PeopleStillsStarsChallengesForgetOne ThingBuiltCastsDocumentaries Author:Brian Lindstrom
“I want my music to be something that people use in order to access parts of themselves. So in that sense, every piece I write is about all emotions at once, about the lines in between. It's never only about one thing or another. It's emotionally getting at those things that we can't really describe - things for which we don't have labels. So yes, it's about something, and it has a use. It's neither about nothing nor about something concrete - it's about what you bring to it as a listener.” PeopleWantWritingUseOrderLinesEmotionPiecesOne ThingAccessLabelsConcreteListeners Author:Missy Mazzoli
“You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.” PeopleCareCitiesOne ThingJeopardy Author:Marc Guggenheim
“The things I'm grateful for are: I had the one thing that I feel really lucky about, which is that I made something, I made art, that truly - in a weird way - truly comforted me and comforted a lot of people. And I'm really grateful that I got to have that experience.” PeopleWayFeelsArtMadeOne ThingLuckyGrateful Author:David Rees
“I can tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the American people think. There's going to be an awful lot more body bags.” PeopleThinkingI CanMatterBodyOne ThingAwfulBags Author:Seymour Hersh
“I think the one thing that's going on here is that people are saying, uh-oh, the Chinese economy might be slowing more than we thought and the government is having a hard time stimulating it again.” PeopleThinkingHardGovernmentMightEconomyOne ThingChineseHard TimesSlowingHaving A Hard Time Author:David Wessel
“Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago.” PeopleYearsWellsSaidTwoBigsThreeNumbersGoneOne ThingChangedMonthsPercentYears AgoTerrorismTerroristNewspapersArticlesThree YearsPakistanCiviliansHeadlinesCivilian Deaths Author:Mohsin Hamid
“One thing about Andy Warhol that was remarkable and also key to his widespread appeal is that he was so open! He would get on the phone and talk to the kid who called to say he was a fan - you know, Andy would walk from his house every morning down to the Factory carrying a bunch of Interviews - people would stop him and he would sign them, and what have you.” PeopleKnowsKidsHouseWalksMorningOne ThingFansKeysPhonesBunchAppealsInterviewsRemarkableFactoriesEvery MorningWarhol Author:Bob Colacello
“One thing about our show that wasn't even in my awareness, but was brought to my attention by other people, is that our show is about these love-based relationships. Even though the characters are obviously going through different conflicts, you can really feel that the characters love each other. And they really try their best.” PeopleFeelsTryingDifferentCharacterShowsAttentionOne ThingAwarenessConflictLove Each Other Author:Steve Zissis
“I like his consistency, because Bernie Sanders talk - it boils down to the American people. His one thing is the American people.” PeopleOne ThingConsistency Author:Killer Mike