I’m about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.
The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I’ve got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I’d love to be doing all that again.
My prediction for the 2016 race was based on a variety of observational and anecdotal evidence. I listened to Democrats, Republicans and independents across the U.S. I talked to people who consider themselves apolitical.
I want to show another side of Middle Easterners. My hope is that I would be able to play a variety of parts, and not always be the guy with the accent.
One of the Internet’s highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance to ‘name your own price’ for a variety of products, including airline tickets.
It is hard for the media to outright label a sitting president a white supremacist, or even a garden variety racist. If Trump was still a private citizen, this would be easier.
It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called ‘openness to experience.’ People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.
It’s nice to have a variety in creative work that I like to do.
I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
There’s a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children’s music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn’t normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships.
Will Smith is my favorite actor, because he has so much variety in his career. He’s done all types of roles, played in all types of worlds, and to me, that’s the fun of acting. That’s why I started doing it when I was eight years old, because you get to be whatever you want.
When you’re setting up your dating profile, choose the photos according to who you are today. A variety of recent shots that are a true representation of your character.
The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can’t afford to get it wrong.
I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I’m wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change.
In Seattle, I’ve talked about how Pete Carroll is such… I’m kind of surprised at the variety of styles that successful coaches can have. Some are very communicative and positive and energized – like, Pete Carroll has all that in spades. Some of them are more cerebral; some are more directive.
As an actor, I enjoy variety. That’s a big thing for me. So, if I’m going to put my name to something and commit to something that’s going to take up a lot of my time, it has to be something that I know is going to be enjoyable and worth my while. Otherwise, what’s the point?
I just want to do as many utterly different parts as I can get. Variety teaches you to act, and it keeps you fresh in your approach.
We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot of running. I enjoyed the variety.
These are some of my awards – an Ivor Novello, a Variety Club Silver Heart, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. I also have a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and a street named after me in Brooklyn where I used to live.
Showing variety in representation in casting is super important, it gives minorities a platform and I think it definitely creates a safe space for conversation and progress.
It’s funny: I feel like so many people say, ‘Monogamy, it’s not natural; we created that for a variety of reasons,’ but I think a lot of people love being married and enjoy being married and want to be married to who they’re married to.
I reveled in political science and history of all kinds, and I felt for a long time that I had discovered all the secrets of life in psychology, although its Freudian variety left me cold. The id never made much sense to me.
We grew up listening to a wide variety of music.
I’ve written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.
I do a variety of activities like Pilates, bike riding, physical therapy, and running. I also train on the ice five to six days a week. On the ice, I work on my programs as a whole and the individual technical elements that comprise the programs.
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
I’ve always wanted to demonstrate a variety of different roles when I act and do different projects and not ever do one of the same.
I’ve played gay, and I’ve played straight… I’m proud to be a gay man myself, and I’m thrilled to get the opportunity to play a variety of different gay men.
One of the market’s virtues, and the reason it enables so much peaceful interaction and cooperation among such a great variety of peoples, is that it demands of its participants only that they observe a relatively few basic principles, among them honesty, the sanctity of contracts, and respect for private property.
If I don’t try and bring variety in my appearances, I will get bored with films, so I can well imagine how bored the audience would get watching me.
The brilliant thing about ‘Blue Peter’ is the variety of the stuff you do and the experiences that you have, just amazing experiences.
Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.
We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.
I always look for variety. I always want to run the gamut.
You start off interested in variety and then it’s always about bigger fish, bigger fish and I became fairly obsessive, I think, in my late teens and early 20s.
People are inevitably disappointed, because no one’s as good as Bill Clinton’s first impression. Or, he’s done things. He’s disappointed people in a variety of ways. And so then, the fall is hard.
All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.
I believe that the federal government should respect the freedoms that Canadians enjoy to have different beliefs and that by imposing personal values of Justin Trudeau on a wide variety of groups is not an appropriate way to go.
I played a wide variety of roles.
My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He’d had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.
There’s no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitation on comics? You can use any word in the dictionary. You can put them in any order you want to. You can use a vast variety of illustrating styles. People could do all sorts of things.
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as ‘The Royal Variety Show,’ performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.
Variety of characters and themes bring out the best in me.
The human knee is complex and prone to failure in a variety of ways; there’s a lot of muscle mass low down in the legs which makes moving them fairly inefficient.
Planned Parenthood claims to offer a wide variety of services, but they actually fall short in many areas.
My problem is that I can do variety of roles.
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.
As I grew older, I realised that I could be versatile. I decided to try out a variety of singing styles by becoming a playback singer.
The genre thing is overrated, and the platform decisions are overrated. It’s what we see on ‘Fortnite’: so many of these gamers play on a variety of devices, so you can’t say they’re a mobile gamer or a console gamer. They’re just a gamer.
I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I think, if I remember correctly, it’s 230 calories for a whole bowl. Maybe 270? In the 5th month, I added fruit.
People want variety and something that is affordable.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
Character is made up of a variety of different things. One of those elements is gender.
I’m interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it’s difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I’m learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
