Government is really successful when it’s willing to make big, bold objectives, like, ‘We’re going to get to the moon.’ But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.
We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.
I was stuck at home in bed with me and got more and more involved with the Internet. I used it to keep in contact with friends and to make sure I was up to date with everything that was going on in the world.
The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story’s flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it’s almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you’ve already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.
I used to play against a high school football team that always used to run the single wing. And eventually, other teams figured out that they ran the single wing. And so they prepared for it. The Democrats are stuck running the single wing.
A lot of athletes are stuck on themselves and don’t want to socialize and that kind of thing. When I see that, I hate it.
Too many people feel stuck in the middle – not wealthy by any measure, but doing just well enough that the social safety net isn’t there for them. They feel left behind by a system that isn’t listening to them and an economy that isn’t rewarding them for their hard work.
Age, they say, is only important if you’re cheese. or a wine. They also say, if you are stuck behind one on a golf course, that a tree is 90 per cent air. How come, then, that you invariably send your ball crashing into the remaining 10 per cent?
I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.
With me having this raspy voice, people always asked when I was going to sing on a song. When I was going at it with 50, people were saying I don’t sing on my own hooks. That always stuck in my head and people always told me I had to use my own voice not just to rap.
The books that stuck with me most as a child were ‘A Wrinkle In Time’, ‘Dracula’, ‘Hatchet’, ‘Bunnicula’, ‘White Fang’, and this YA/kids’ book called ‘Nobody’s Fault’ where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.
I like to go to parties if I know who’s going to be there, and if it’s people I want to be with. I don’t just go to go. And I always drive myself, because I hate being stuck places – there’s nothing worse that going out and then being stuck!
You hit those valleys sometimes and it’s really frustrating. It’s like getting stuck in traffic on the freeway. But there’s not much you can do about it.
I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.
Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.
If you are playing repertoire material, you’re stuck. There’s not huge amounts you can do.
I’ve conditioned myself to believe that almonds are a completely delicious snack, and that they don’t taste like paper or get stuck in the back of my mouth.
With ‘Downton Abbey,’ you’re always stuck in one stately home.
In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.
There are a billion songs that I’ve heard and said, ‘I don’t even care to have an opinion about it,’ but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ once, it’ll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.
I definitely stuck out like a sore thumb. I came to the conclusion – I had to at such a young age – if no one was going to be like me, then I just have to own it. If I can’t be like everyone else, then I might as well just own who I am.
Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas’ reminds you there’s a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.
I wouldn’t say I’m stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.
So many a time, I would find myself stuck in my studio while, in another country, my exhibitions were opening and I was being celebrated.
I think that’s given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don’t think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns.
I’ve never had to do anything I didn’t believe in. Sometimes that meant being poor and waitressing a while longer, but I’ve always stuck with it.
When I’m stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.
I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I’d ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there’s a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.
Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
When you have that fake beard and stuff stuck on your face, you can’t move your face. It’s just not fun.
Where wealth is concerned, individuals aren’t stuck in little boxes. You don’t start out wealthy, stay wealthy, and end wealthy.
I want to win. For myself first. And for all those people who stuck with me and understood.
The Gaza leadership is stuck in its rhetoric of revolution and resistance. But the people are fed up with their leadership.
Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we’ve poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually… a verb. It’s an activity.
The government shouldn’t step in at the first stage and create land banks. Industry should buy the land as much as they can, and if they get stuck, then the government should step in.
When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
New Year’s Resolutions come and go. Some we keep, some we don’t. In order to make lasting changes in our lives, we must first change our minds. We sometimes forget, and we often feel stuck, but we all have the power to do so.
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all. You don’t have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It’s that fear of going back down.
I always thought when I hit 50 years old that’d be it for the travel. I don’t have to tell you – you wait at an airport, your flight’s delayed, get on a 14-hour flight, get off, get stuck in traffic, you get to the hotel and the room service is closed.
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.
‘Lonesome Dove’ by Larry McMurtry and ‘The Poisonwood Bible’ by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author’s writing.
I’m stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I’m alone. Because in France, they’re like, ‘No, you’re not like us, you’re not a French guy.’ And in America, they’re like, ‘You’re not like us.’ I’m really alone in my little thing.
We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.
Every time I am stuck in traffic, stub my toe, get a middle seat on the flight, I just remember how all of this is just a blip in the radar of my life.
You can only punish your body so long before you’re stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you’d previously been able to do.
Politicians are constantly stuck between what is politically expedient and politically beneficial and what is the responsible or right thing to do. It’s a tension we all go through.
Of course I loved ‘I Love Lucy’ and saw every episode over and over again. I found it heartbreaking that Ricky got to be famous and have an exciting life at the Tropicana while Lucy was stuck in that terrible apartment with the Mertzes.
We just stuck to what we did best. Maybe that’s why people plug into us and go ‘They never change.’ We’re reliable. A bit like old shoes.
If you’re going through something, just know that you’re gonna come out on the other side. You’re going through it – you’re not stuck there forever.
You could be the most beautiful girl, but if you’re stuck up, that doesn’t do it for me.
