Top 495 One Of The Things Quotes

One of the things non-aboriginal Canadians learned from aboriginal people over the last 400 years is you don’t have to be one thing. That’s a European idea. There’s multiple personalities, multiple loyalties. You can be a Winnipegger, a Manitoban, a Westerner.

One of the things I believe in most strongly is the power of a second chance.

I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.

I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.

It’s always a dream to be on the cover, it’s one of the things an athlete always aspires to do, to be on the cover of a videogame, but I never thought I would get to do it this quick.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

One of the things I found is that no matter where in the country – poor communities, rich communities – everybody deals with very similar issues of bullying. It’s pretty widespread.

There are people who have been in this game much longer than myself. And one of the things that I’ve learned by way of just watching is to stay flexible because you never know what may pop up.

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.

One of the things that helped me to be confident is to be the kind of musician that I respect. I always liked musicians who wrote their own songs, and so I started writing my own songs.

I think one of the things I’ve learned is that the tone of an organization is set from the top down. And if you have men running an organization that want to honor women, that’s a whole different experience than if they don’t.

I think there are several things that people don’t get about wrestling, and one of the things is that we are entertainment.

One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of cricket, that involvement of myself – mind, body and spirit – to delivering that one specific process, which is to execute a cricket shot. It is a beautiful feeling; it is very hard to replicate.

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.

That’s one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

One of the things that Dumbledore is always trying to do is to empower the kids to take ownership of issues and be creative and involved. That’s what we see today. We need to empower America to be a creator of its solutions going forward in a new, very confusing world.

Growing up in the ’70s and ’80s when my dad had an art gallery, one of the things that frustrated me was the world seemed so tiny, and to appreciate contemporary art, you needed a history of art, a formal education. I was more interested in the people, and that’s why I went into the movie business in the first place.

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.

One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.

I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write ‘August Osage County.’ It helps me to write any play that I’m working on because I think one of the things I do well is write good roles for actors.

One of the things that struck me about the 1870s, which we still haven’t nearly addressed, is what to do about the male-female divide. One of the forbidden topics is when men own up to the omnivorousness of their sexual interest and how to square that with being in love with an individual woman.

One of the things I learned is that you’ve got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime – that it’s not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.

Negativity, in general, is one of the things that holds people back, and you have to see what’s holding you back to get away from it.

One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.

The small businesses that I’ve talked to have consistently said that the cost of health care is one of the things that they need the most help with.

It’s true: one of the things that I’ve always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

I think one of the things I really learned in Denver is the value of being a good listener.

If I had my druthers, I think a ‘Cyborg’ standalone would be a slightly more intimate story. One of the things that I always think is interesting with these sort of universes is, whenever there’s a world-threatening crisis, it always makes you wonder, ‘Where are the other members of the group? Why didn’t they show up?’

One of the things that happens when you write characters – and maybe this is my own sentimentality – is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.

I’ve only half-admitted I’m a professional. I know I am, I’ve paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I’m acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.

One of the things I’ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.

One of the things I’ve always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

I’m really healthy, and that’s one of the things I pride myself on.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

When I started giving talks about women’s history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, ‘Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.’ It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.

One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It’s always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.

One of the things about Fleetwood Mac, you gotta say, is that it’s not very often that you get everyone to want the same thing at the same time.

One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They’re proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

One of the things that we’ve tried to do with the ‘Guardians’ films is to allow the women to be full characters.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

One of the things that happens that’s challenging within the democratic process is that people say, ‘Look at this failure, so we should totally change this whole thing.’ And then you add in tons of bureaucratic process and checks and balances, and all of a sudden, it doesn’t work that well.

One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.

I get letters from people saying one of the things they like best about what I’ve done since ‘Bewitched’ is that they never know what I’m going to do next.

I think one of the things that, at least, I found out over – and many have in the industry – is that of all the customer service desires and needs, price is one of them.

I knew that modeling could open doors, and I would be able to travel and forge my own path. Being able to support yourself is amazing, and I think that was one of the things that appealed to me, but I didn’t want to be in front of the camera at first.

So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I’ve found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.