Top 252 Repeat Quotes

I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian – even though I’d like to be one when I grow up.

I repeat for the umpteenth time, without making apologies: My children have had more than their fair share of presidency under their father. There cannot be any hereditary transfer of power.

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who’s stupid get more stupid, because you’re trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

You can never repeat certain things. It’s only once in a lifetime.

I hate to say this, but I’ll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

I had a date with a girl I called ‘the parrot.’ All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!

I watched a lot of ‘Wayne’s World’ on repeat.

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you’ll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

When I left HEEP I didn’t know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn’t want to repeat my mistakes!

I can only repeat, I would never compare myself to Gerd Muller.

A perfect example is ‘Zero Dark Thirty.’ That’s the closest thing to reportage that I’ve done because a lot of that was shooting from the hip and found images and giving the actors a lot of freedom to explore the space and not have to repeat their actions twice and basically workshop on-camera.

I’ll listen to 3 artists on repeat for more than a month.

Think up your own way of speaking. When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework.

I’ve heard people on panels say, ‘You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,’ and I just want to say, ‘Shut up. Everything you’re saying is wrong.’ People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books.

We all want to not repeat ourselves constantly, and explore the limits of our capabilities.

I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn’t interest me. It’s only really done to make money.

I don’t like to repeat myself as an actor.

You can’t undo the past… but you can certainly not repeat it.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book.

A lot of times, actors and directors don’t want to repeat something. I don’t think we’re repeating something, but I think there’s certainly a genre that we’re in, and we’re happy to embrace it.

The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.

We can’t let extremists on any side hijack or rewrite history because those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it.

If you repeat yourself, then I think you’re in danger of losing that fan base, because if you’re not interesting yourselves, you’re not interesting your audience.

With certain ideas, you can predict commercial success. So with a ‘Toy Story 3’ or a ‘Cars 2,’ you know the idea is more likely to have financial success. But if you go down that path too far, you become creatively bankrupt because you’re just trying to repeat yourself.

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

Glass really rewards risk. A lot of times with glass, you’re just waiting for the piece to cool down or for some temperature to adjust, and there’s split seconds where you’ve got a fraction of a second where you get to make a move a particular way, and you don’t get to repeat it if you do it wrong.

When I interview somebody, I look at their resume to see what they’ve done, who they’ve worked with, and how many times. If they’ve gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to hire.

I love when things can repeat and you can make things slightly different each time and just react to the music and react to the recording.

I didn’t want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn’t really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.

It’ always so sad to see people spend the rest of their careers just trying to repeat the formula.

Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told – and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.

Repeating, trying to repeat success – it never gets easier.

Traditional local advertising is not what retailers want. They want not just for you to see an ad – they want you to come into the store, to be a repeat customer and to spread the word.

We’re making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don’t know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We’re really excited.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don’t know it all. I think it’s a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you’ve already done. I try to make sure that I don’t repeat my music.

I think that we have positive moments in our history and negative moments in our history. We incarcerated Japanese Americans in the state of Colorado, in Camp Amache. You could say that’s part of our heritage; I would say it’s a shameful part of our heritage and not something we should repeat.

You have to have sound mechanics to repeat the same delivery each time. That’s the hard part. Since I don’t bowl all the time I’m not consistent with my mechanics.

I feel like I’m always fighting not to repeat myself.

In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different – dissonant things make me uncomfortable.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue – I repeat myself over and over again with this – to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we’ve got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we’re not always presenting the same thing.

Many people repeat the past. I’m not interested. I prefer evolution.

If I want to hear a voice, Lana Del Rey is very soothing, and I could just listen to her on repeat, but my real go-to that’s been very consistent for at least the past ten years is Miles Davis.

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn’t go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.

I try not to repeat myself too often, but it’s a gamble. ‘Fred Claus’ had three Oscar winners in it. No business – it was a bad movie.

Trying to find the limit of yourself and the limit of the car and sometimes to exceed it and see the real limit – if you find that sweet spot and are able to repeat it, it is one of the best feelings.

My mistakes are always around moving too slow or moving too fast without process behind it. And it’s something that, if we’re not careful, we’ll repeat again and again.

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

A pregnancy is a marvelous moment that I would love to repeat and repeat.

I always make a point to make my records different. Let’s say I have a record that’s influenced by hip-hop in an abstract way; for the next record, I’d try not to do that. They are all connected in a personal way but it’s important not to repeat myself, because then I can always learn something about myself through my work.

I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I’ve never attained. This is the excitement of art.

Even if we remember the past, odds are good we’ll still repeat it.

Whenever you have a failure or setback, you need to take a step back and find out what you can learn from the scenario. What did you do to contribute to that failure? This way, you can make sure you don’t repeat that pattern.