Lot Quotes

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Soups are a great way to introduce a lot of vegetables to kids. Stir-fries, too, because they contain so many different shapes and colors.

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.

I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

There's a lot of hate in the world.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get across is, it doesn't have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day.

A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.

You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.

Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.