I very rarely watch anybody swing. All I do is follow where the ball goes.
I’ve always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.
The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton’s presidency it was locked away.
Happiness is perhaps painlessness, a state one rarely appreciates. Happiness, then, is very much like a great talent. It rarely gets appreciated and is taken for granted.
When those of us in the words-making world use the term ‘overregulation,’ we are mostly putting a name to a concept we rarely experience consciously.
As is the case with all good things in life – love, good manners, language, cooking – personal creativity is required only rarely.
Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.
An Oklahoma girl like me wouldn’t even know how to be a diva. I’m just a person who has a cool job. I love to be at home. I rarely go to clubs… and I always wear underwear! I just know I’d fall down, and that’s not for everyone to see.
An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.
I rarely give interviews. I am against doing television interviews or chatting on the Net, even to promote my films. This is my personal decision, and it is not to hurt or embarrass anybody.
The fact is, human rights victories are rarely won by powerful governments or well-armed militaries. More often than not, these battles are led by individuals and small groups of people determined to overcome wrong. Think King, Gandhi, Mandela.
Elections are rarely perfect.
The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.
I rarely think that when a guy loses a fight, it’s a weight issue. You can either fight, or you can’t.
Most of your life as an actor in Hollywood, either an actress or an actor, you have to look – you have to work out, you have to look – you rarely get to play someone who’s just human, who’s real, who is overweight, even not grossly overweight, but who has aspects of just everyday life.
In my years of doing the K1 fights, one thing I’ve learned is that the guys who you think will be there in the end – very rarely do you get the match up you were hoping for.
I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.
If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it’s foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
I symbolized doping… My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.
Polite conversation is rarely either.
You rarely get money out of labels, except for when they open up a budget for a project. Other than that, it’s a do-or-die type thing.
Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That’s because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their head that rarely turns off.
From a child’s point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.
Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
I’m so proud to be a real woman, a size 14 woman on the cover of a magazine like ‘Ralph.’ Women’s publications rarely put size 14 women on the cover, let alone men’s, so I’m really honoured and proud to be on the cover and representing curvy, sexy women out there.
There’s something rare and wonderful that’s very particular to television, and it’s when a great cast meets a great show runner/creator with the right set of characters to play. That’s what happened with ‘Arrested Development.’ It happens every so often, but all too rarely on TV.
I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.
If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it’s rarely because they think I’m someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, ‘Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?’
It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don’t get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins.
If art can be at the service of anything, it’s about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.
Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that’s rarely the case.
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.
Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life.
I’ve always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It’s a point of pride for me.
Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.
From time to time, people pat me on the head. It happens on public transport, in the supermarket, in bars. It’s a common enough occurrence that it very rarely takes me completely by surprise.
Men. We love them. We respect them. But we rarely get to objectify them.
Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.
I love to write, so it rarely seems like work – even when it gets arduous.
I was in Studio 54 one time; it was great. But I’m not a discotheque guy. Sometimes, if I had a new demo, I went to some discotheques to check it out – see how the reactions of the people were. But just to dance, I rarely did that.
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal.
In reality, I don’t see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
When you study history in American schools, very rarely is the name John Brown mentioned. We know who Kanye West is or Twyla Tharp or Shania Twain.
I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I’d rather spend it with my friends than on myself.
I very rarely go back to do shows again. I’m done once I’ve learned the lessons I need to learn.
I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don’t like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can’t write.
As far as playing different characters within the character, I think that’s fun. Very rarely, on TV, do you get to do that on such a regular basis.
I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.
Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There’s something beneath the outrage – an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence.
I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out.
I find that I do my best work at the beginning of the day, but I’m rarely in a writing mood when I sit down. I’m usually somewhat sleep-deprived, and I always have a long list of other responsibilities calling my name.
Unlike the LeBrons and A-Rods of the world, anointed as special from pre-K, Matt Leinart exudes an approachability rarely seen in superstars. It’s why kids on the autograph line chat him up like a buddy with whom they could stay up late playing Xbox.
People ask me if they can send me material, and some people give or send it to me unsolicited, but I rarely buy jokes.
Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.
My dad died 11 years ago, I don’t see much of my brothers, and I rarely speak to my mum. I don’t hold a grudge, but being separated in those early years clearly had an impact. Our relationship didn’t develop as it ought to.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
