I’ve had really a great choice of roles that have been very different from one another. And I think I kind of set out to do that when I began my career – to aim to never play the same thing twice.
In my field, you can’t really wear the same dress twice unless you want Isaac Mizrahi to scorn you on TV.
Never follow somebody else’s path; it doesn’t work the same way twice for anyone… the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We’re wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We’re now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.
I refused to be filmed getting off a bus twice. The director said, ‘I’m an award-winning director. Please do it’, and I said, ‘I never thought I’d say this, but I’m an award-winning actress with a bad leg, and if your film depends on seeing me get in and out of a bus, we’re in trouble.’
I’ve only done karaoke twice in my life.
As a woman of color, we’re raised to know we have to be twice as good.
I joke with my kids, who love history, that I’ll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.
I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she’s worked twice as hard to get there, she’s had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she’s in control.
I’d like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I’ve been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.
I’d like to go out with friends, but I train twice a day, then I go to school, and at night I go home.
Meru was the most challenging climb of my life. Not once but twice.
German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.
We never do the same set twice.
There’s got to be a backbone, there’s got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it’s always got to be fresh so it doesn’t bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.
El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth.
The world is twice as crazy as it’s ever been.
Truly, what the Secret Service did for us is that they saved my dad’s life twice.
When you are 14, 15, 16, you can train every day in France, and sometimes you can train twice a day.
I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
Nobody knows how long they have left on Earth. There’s no guarantees, and for me, when they tell you – not once, twice, three times – ‘You’ve got a couple weeks to live,’ or a couple months, you have to determine how you want to do that.
If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets.
If a football player has a bad game, he’s allowed to do that because he plays once or twice a week. With fighting, it’s once every few months.
I joined the Ballets Russes when I was 14, and my name was changed twice. I was known as Marie Istomina, then as Felia Siderova. When I went to Hollywood and made my first movie, ‘Mission to Moscow,’ in 1943, I became Lily Norwood.
I loved to dance and went to Studio 54 at least twice a week. But I always felt nervous around the people there. I was in awe of that whole Halston-Liza Minnelli crowd. To me, they were the real celebrities, and I was just a girl from Idaho.
Every time I kill someone, he can’t plant an I.E.D. You don’t think twice about it.
No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It’s perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way.
I’ve sold shows based on my standup twice to CBS, but they’ve never gone past the script stage. TV is very competitive.
I’m relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that’s not very pleasant.
Through the learning experiences, I’ve been trying to eliminate mistakes. I don’t want the same mistake to happen twice.
My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her.
Musically, what happened was this: I retired twice. I retired after The Black Crowes, and I retired after Brand New Immortals. Then, we started buying real estate, which really took up my time. I was busy. I was still teaching yoga, but I was mostly busy running business, and I was fine. I was happy.
I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions. I am wealthy in that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with the leadership of a great nation such as Russia – I believe that is my greatest wealth.
Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater… and say, ‘Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.’ And then they get here and say, ‘Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!’ It’s not just show up one day and do it. It’s show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays.
I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
Sugar brings happiness. Eating it once or twice a week in a dessert, that’s what life is about. There is nothing wrong with it.
A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.
Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.
I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.
My girlfriend has read all the ‘Game of Thrones’ books – twice.
The way health care is funded in the U.S. is not sustainable. People are being kept alive who are probably better off dead. The cost of health care is too high, and you don’t get much for it – it’s twice as high in the U.S. as elsewhere, and it’s because of the middlemen.
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
It was irritating to have one’s physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.
I amp up my workout by doing Ballet Beautiful twice a day.
I tried twice to get into drama school and didn’t, so I worked my way up through the fringe.
I didn’t turn 40. I turned 20 twice.
Once you get into a routine of eating healthy, it hurts twice as much when you fall off the wagon.
I’m the ugly sister. I’m the fat one. I’m the transvestite. I have had those mean things said about me at least twice a day for the last five years. It’s horrible, you know? But I can brush that stuff off.
I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women’s restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
You can knock me down, but I get up twice as strong.
The one thing my mom taught me was to never go to bed without washing my face, and so I wash my face at least twice a day.
How can they beat me? I’ve been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
I mean, I’ve done different things at different times that I shouldn’t have done, once or twice, you know.
You know what the material is so that you never play it the same way twice.
It’s hard for the older boys to play twice a week, so it’s important for everyone in the squad to play their part.
I’m a chicken and fish guy, but I throw a burger in once, maybe twice a week.
A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you’re writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don’t have to do it over.
When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.
Andy Clark refers to humans as ‘natural-born cyborgs.’ What he means is that we habitually extend and change our body-concept without even thinking twice about it.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
I had a lot of strong women around my whole life who were survivors. My grandma survived breast cancer twice and the death of her child and the death of her brother, and, you know, just a lot of tragedy, and she’s still the happiest person I’ve ever met.
In 2000, twice as much water was used throughout the world as in 1960. By 2050, half of the planet’s projected 8.9 billion people will live in countries that are chronically short of water.
