Realizing Quotations | Page 3

When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it.

I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.

We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.

I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal.

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources that we have available to us.

We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they should be a real threat to the medical profession.

Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.

More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.

We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.

The thing is, and Americans are starting to realize this now, that while street gangs are violent, the Democrats and Republicans are worse. They are worse because their decisions affect your life.

When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.

I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just enjoy the day you're in. Really make the most of it.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.

Growing up it was the exception because I was maybe the only one in my school or my circle of friends that had that experience. But now that I know more people in the industry, I am realizing this happens to almost everybody.

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.

My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.

My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.

Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

People don't realize that when they 'throw out' their back, it's often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture.

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.

Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.

The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it's not working. I did a study on this, you know.

I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.

I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.

I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.

When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.

When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.

More and more people are realizing that seat belts are absolutely the most effective safety device in a car,

More and more pro teams are realizing the value of having a development squad, and we provide the perfect event for these young riders not only to have a taste of being a team leader, but also to get the feeling of competing in a proper road stage race.

'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.

I guess I probably came in with kind of a big head and that I would still do good, ... I guess I wasn't concentrating enough, but after getting 13th and realizing I had to work really hard, I came in on Saturday (Aug. 13) knowing what I had to do. There were little things I could have done better (on Thursday). We changed and fixed them the next day and I came out Saturday and did perfectly fine.

One who makes a resolution and then makes sincere efforts to realize his dreams, nothing stops him from realizing his goal.

One feels infinite bliss that is perceivable only through the intellect, and is beyond the reach of the senses. After realizing Brahman, one is never separated from absolute reality.

One of the things that I'm realizing is that in voice-over work, you have to actually do more work with your facial muscles and your mouth. You have to kind of exaggerate your pronunciation a little bit more, whereas with live action, you can get away with mumbling sometimes.

No one has paid attention to it. But now people are realizing that freedom of expression throughout the world is at stake.

Obviously, gaining public acceptance is going to be a huge issue, especially when you talk about reintroducing predators. There are going to have to be some major attitude shifts. That includes realizing predation is a natural role, and that people are going to have to take precautions.

Now we're realizing that planetary systems are continually evolving. They change at a slower rate as they get older, but they continue to change.

People will give them a little bit of slack, realizing that this fiscal year it's a turnaround year.

My first two Olympics were just really devastating. I was so devastated after Salt Lake I thought my life was going to end. It was one of those life lessons ... realizing that life's a lot bigger than this five-ring circus.