I once told a journalist that girls call me ‘Kitten,’ but I couldn’t have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I’ve said that it was a joke, it still doesn’t go away.
Unjust. How many times I’ve used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don’t have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
I’ve been to Israel many times – I’ve lost count of how many times.
Most of our artists are songwriters, so the songs are still central to all this. If you don’t have great songs, it doesn’t matter the marketing or how many times you are on TV; you can only polish it so much.
If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I’m still frightened of him. I think he’s going to hit me.
How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn’t have done it.
I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.
I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
You know how many times I have to witness the transition from, ‘Oh, get away from that thug,’ to, ‘Oh, wait a minute, that’s the guy from ‘Weeds’! Hey, can I shake your hand?’
How many times did your parents tell you to eat your food because there were starving children in Africa? Throwing away food was considered a sin in my family.
The media has been nice to me so far, but if I get compared to Channing one more time… I’m taking it as a compliment, but it is crazy how many times people have compared me to him. I don’t know if ‘Magic Mike’ is in my future, but we’ll see.
If you lose three or four in a row, people start talking about retirement. They are not used to this sport like they are used to tennis. If you take a look at how many times Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer lost, it’s all part of the game. Soccer is no different: teams go through bad times and then rise again.
It’s how many times you get back up that defines you.
How many points, how many races you can win, how many times you be on the podium. That’s the name of the game.
I cannot tell you how many times I have seen the original ‘Steel Magnolias’ with Dolly Parton and Sally Field and Julia Roberts.
I don’t know how many times you see 10s tackle each other.
It wasn’t cool that I didn’t comb my hair and had books and wore glasses. It was never cool be a nerd and tomboy, and these days, it really is. And I’m like, ‘You guys have no idea what I went through.’ How many times my mother yelled at me to comb my hair.
Don’t forget there are two sides to performing. Finding the truth, but you also have to be transparent enough for the audience to see it. How many times have you seen a performance and thought: ‘Well, it seems to be meaning a great deal to you but it ain’t coming across to me?’ It is to be shared.
Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I’ve had my share of injuries throughout my career. It’s humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I’ve been hurt, I’ve learned from that injury and come back even more humble.
President and Mrs. Kennedy would walk into the East Room with their honored guests, preceded by the military color guard, who then posted their flags behind the receiving line. This ceremony never failed to move all of us, no matter how many times the staff witnessed it.
Music makes us want to live. You don’t know how many times people have told me that they’d been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That’s the power music has.
Anyone who has played the game professionally, you’re always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it’s always a mad scramble. It’s amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn’t walk away with the ball.
As long as I’m playing at a high level, and I deserve to be out there, then I’ll always put that U.S.A. jersey on. There’s nothing better than that, no matter how many times you’ve done it.
I’m more proud of how many times I haven’t jumped than how many times I have jumped. Sometimes walking down, I’ve saved my life.
I don’t think about how many times how many heroines have said ‘I love you’ to how many heroes on screen and that I am also doing the same. It is how differently I can say the same thing in my own style or how I can bring a new element into it.
How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?
I lost count of how many times photographers and designers would tell me to lose a bit of weight, especially as I got a little older and my body started to develop.
How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they’ve got that great business idea.
I can’t begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.
I like to write from midnight to dawn with great stores of candy and Red Bull laid in… I’m not sure why I have the work habits of a 20-year-old coder, but no matter how many times I set up a more reasonable schedule, I always fall back to this.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had conversations with politicians who’ve done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn’t a ‘right.’ It’s a kind of loan.
I will say no matter how many times you go through pregnancy and then phase into newborn life, it never becomes routine or normal.
I can’t tell you how many times I hit that mat, especially that first year, where I said to myself, ‘Man, this fake stuff hurts like hell. Do I really want to do this?’ And every time, I would come back, ‘Yeah, I wanna do this.’
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been writing an article only to get distracted by an email notification, either on my laptop or smartphone.
Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.
Here’s the thing with ‘When Harry Met Sally,’ it doesn’t matter how many times you watch it, it’s always interesting, and you’re always identifying with a different scene in the movie – at least I am.
How many times have you seen me run into the box with the ball, dribbling past players? It’s uncommon because it’s not my game; it’s not my thing.
It doesn’t matter what we post about ourselves on social networks or how many times we play live TV, even. It’s all about those people, those fans who are telling other people about us.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That’s how it goes in my house, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven’s ‘Eighth’ does?
There have been numerous times when my career was supposed to be over because of mathematics, you know, age and numbers,’ he says. ‘How many times can you go platinum? How many times can you rap about the same subject? How many times can you say, ‘Oakland?’
How many times have we seen reality celebrities fall from grace – often through no fault of their own – and then go on a show like ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ and say, ‘I want to show the public a different side of me.’ And I’m screaming at the telly going, ‘This is not therapy. This is voyeurism!’
What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports? And I say to people who tell me they can’t travel, ‘How much did you spend at the mall this year? How many times did you eat out? Take that money and go.’
I don’t know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It’s interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you’re doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.
My favorite thing to do is rip the covers off a script when reading for writers to hire and make everybody read without names on the covers of the script. I can’t tell you how many times my writers, women and men, will pick people of color and women much more often than they would with a cover on the script.
Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you’ve failed at something.
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I’ve looked it right back and said, ‘No.’
You never know how many times you’re going to be able to come out on Rod Laver Arena and just play.
I have always been interested in abandoned cars. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in a car, driving, and there’s a car sitting in a pasture, totally abandoned. Or on the edge of a creek or something. I always wonder: why did somebody park it in the pasture and leave?
