People don’t seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it’s pretty straightforward to me.
I cannot tell a lie, and I’m very straightforward. Sometimes this hurts people. I’ve wondered if I should change, but I feel more comfortable about myself this way.
I am a straightforward man.
It’s never a straightforward thing to do, to be able to inherit a squad. When you’re mid-season it’s never easy to get a team or a squad of players to function exactly the way you want them to.
I’m not very good at dating. I’m very decisive. If I like someone, then they’re my boyfriend. It’s pretty straightforward.
At the end of the day, you want a straightforward, simple system which everyone understands. If you can get clarity and simplicity in any process, it’s better for everybody.
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
My goal and my mission is to cook the home-style food that I grew up with – simple, straightforward, inexpensive and homemade tortillas. Nothing fancy and no cream based sauces – just tomatoes & chiles and nothing pre-processed.
I think if you show up and you work hard and you’re straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I’m right.
Most songs on the radio are so straightforward and it just doesn’t open up people’s minds.
What’s the fundamental problem that VR solves better than anything? To me it’s straightforward. It’s story. VR tells stories better than any medium.
Lots of people tell me I am straightforward.
Working with Salman, I have observed that he is a very straightforward person.
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
I’m extremely straightforward. And I can’t do that sort of traditional girl thing of saying one thing that actually means something else. I never understood it, and I still don’t understand it.
Most teams are naturally flat; they have fewer members than a large enterprise, which allows for intimacy and trust to form. This makes collaborative problem solving in individual teams more straightforward.
When I was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. To me, that simple mission still holds true.
Making new petroleum should be as simple and straightforward as brewing beer.
There’s lots of different feminist groups. It’s not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.
I’m a young correspondent, so sometimes I’m just young. Sometimes I’m just straightforward.
The public is very forgiving. So we’re not trying to obtain some level of perfection that can’t be obtained. But if you’re straightforward and honest and your constituents trust you, they’ll help you get through the times when you fall short.
Yeah, I’ve always been very straightforward when you start dealing with injuries. You always have to communicate with the trainers and the manager and the pitching coach exactly where you’re at.
I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward.
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.
There’s a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It’s very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it’s there to be seen.
What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.
Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I’m very straightforward.
I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren’t just straightforward and nice.
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
The best things – when I really feel that I’m communicating, and when I really feel that people are getting it – are simple, straightforward recipes. I think simple is the hardest to achieve because you don’t have all those elements to hide behind.
Ronda’s a very basic and straightforward fighter. However, she’s a masterful competitor.
My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they’re not alone in going through the things that they go through.
My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.
Portraiture keeps me humble. It’s simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.
I routinely failed to understand that ‘simple and straightforward’ would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.
When it comes to dating, I’m straightforward and traditional with a twist.
Two hundred years ago, bathrooms didn’t exist. The bathroom’s development has not been a straightforward matter, and you might be surprised to learn that many Tudor people had worse personal hygiene than their medieval ancestors.
I am a serious and straightforward person.
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
I’m a straightforward person. I think sometimes it comes off the wrong way.
The mainstream media disconnect has created a vacuum where real Americans are left thirsting for straightforward and honest commentary about the real America they see every day.
I’m very straightforward on immigration. The bus is full. We haven’t got enough energy, we haven’t got enough electricity, we haven’t got enough of a health service.
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn’t seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.
It was fun playing with those jumps and the flashbacks in ‘Zombieland,’ but I don’t think you need it to make a good movie. It’s fun to just do a more straightforward one.
I really like live football. I like the English style, which is very straightforward.
Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you’re manipulating objects, not people. And that’s always appealed to me.
Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.
You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
‘Two’ is not written in the usual style of a novel. It’s a straightforward, linear narrative of my times, as I observed partition, and is told through multiple characters.
American culture is very good at interpersonal relationships and people skills, whereas we’re incredibly adept at academics and straightforward 19th-century Victorian education.
In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I’m not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.
Yes, sometimes I’m friendly and joyful, and sometimes I’m tough, and sometimes I’m straightforward.
The premise of ‘Descent’ may sound pretty straightforward: One summer morning while vacationing with her family in the foothills of the Rockies, a young girl, a high-school athlete in her senior year, goes out for a run in the higher altitudes – and disappears.
My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations – not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations – is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.
I think I understand the relationships between different people within the company: people who are straightforward employees, people who can impact the bottom line, and people who share in the bottom line. I don’t think you can understand inequality in America unless you understand what’s driving profitability.
Fatherhood made everything more straightforward. I was relieved that no longer did I have to agonise over what meaning I had in my life.
The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible.
My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy – the meetings in the U.N. security council, the allegations about weapons of mass destruction, the martial language of Tony Blair and George W. Bush – all suggested a war was brewing.
