When I was on ‘One Life to Live,’ I always wanted to delve into my character, Layla, to find out why she was the black sheep of the family. I so wanted to have some edge. I have no idea why there was a reluctance to do that or why we so rarely see it.
Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
I’m a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that’s very far off.
I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It’s never an issue for me.
When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.
Most of the time, you do films and they can be big films, but you are rarely aware of the fan base that comes with it.
Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
You know the old adage that the customer’s always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.
The U.S. government has rarely, if ever, used the criminal history of a certain immigrant population in determining if the whole community should be allowed to remain in the country under a humanitarian program, like TPS.
It’s because films like ‘Selma’ are so rarely made that we end up putting them under the microscope. One, maybe two, a year. As a white person, you don’t have that. You have the gamut. No one says to Oliver Stone, ‘Another film about Vietnam? White characters again?’
I can honestly say, there was a moment when I was writing ‘Upstream Color’ where I fell so hard for what it was becoming that I couldn’t think of anything else. I was absolutely secure in this story in the way I’m rarely secure about anything else in my life.
I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.
The thing about Brock has always been, who can push Brock to a level where you actually get to see the best of Brock Lesnar, because very rarely have people ever gotten a chance to see that. I mean, really, who can keep up with him? This is not wrestling hype: he’s a once-in-a-lifetime athlete.
The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.
Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.
You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it’s a problem, and I just think it’s a missing link in the music scene.
You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.
I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.
I rarely like the music I make. It’s like nothing’s good enough. I just stay in my head, waiting on the next best beat, so I can do something better than what I did.
Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching.
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Now there is tons of information available online. 90% of students rarely look at magazines in their intended format because they’re looking at them on a computer screen. They don’t understand the layout, so when they come to putting their own portfolios together, they have no spatial awareness.
Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.
I shampoo and condition with Kerastase products but rarely brush it because I’m all about the Kate Moss bed-head look.
Candidates, of course, often claim that they want to run ‘a purely positive campaign,’ but this rarely materializes.
Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people’s music.
Crime is interesting. It’s huge and fascinating, and it’s what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It’s reduced to a chess game.
I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the history of the poor is rarely written down.
We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.
I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.
I rarely watch TV but I guess I’d watch the weather report since I fly so much.
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
I eat about two meals a day vegan, is my rule of thumb. When I’m traveling, all bets are off, but I don’t cook meat in the house. I rarely cook eggs. I never use milk. But when I go out to eat for a special treat, I’ll have some meat. But I know, personally, that’s the best I’m ever going to do in my life.
History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.
Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.
You rarely see a musical being told about the life of a black woman.
I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.
I don’t get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there’s always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it’s one of the most important story decisions an author makes.
There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.
But understanding the complexities of the ramen menu is an equally tricky feat for a foreigner. Both regional and stylistic variations apply to each menu. Add to that the spin that each particular ramen chef puts on his dish, and you rarely know what you are going to get.
All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
Very good cooks who are employed as ‘chefs’ rarely refer to themselves as ‘chefs.’ They refer to themselves as ‘cooks.’
Medical ethics is a fascinating discipline, as it deals with issues replete with complex philosophical, moral, and ethical considerations that are rarely black or white.
Films really can change a conversation and change someone’s thinking and perception, especially with people of color at the center. It rarely happens. I think it’s important for both the community but also the world to see people of color in all genres, especially love stories.
Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it’s done.
Any woman who has attempted to slip a credit card into an inch-deep trouser pocket knows about the annoying puzzle of women’s clothing: Pockets rarely work.
Israel’s system of proportional representation rarely produces stable government.
Don’t like flag-burning? Fine. Hate flag-burning? Me too! The thing is, though, hating something doesn’t always mean that the answer is to call on government powers to ban it – and, in fact, I’d say that that is rarely the best solution, especially when it comes to speech.
I rarely have time for lunch, so tend to have a big breakfast and big dinner.
LOL is rarely OL, or even really L. A real out-loud laugh – not the forced social variety, which is closer to barking than laughing – is uncommon among adults.
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his ‘Lamentations’ are really not worth reading.
I rarely read children’s books.
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
I’m very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.
