Lot Quotes

Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don't do anything.

You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can't forget to take care of ourselves.

I've auditioned for roles that involved voice, but I don't like it. I feel like, I can't do this in front of you. It seems so separate - I don't share it with a lot of people. And I'm not into public performances.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.

I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.

As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.

I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.