Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.
Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there’s something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.
You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who’s Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.
Anyone who knows anything about coming out knows that this is something you would never do for the support and a small check from a random organization.
I have actively opposed every bailout, every rebate check, every so called ‘stimulus.’
My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances.
I’m not really interested in being a superhero. That’s not a box I’ve been trying to check off.
My first publication was a haiku in a children’s magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.
The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
When you say ‘R&B,’ people’s minds automatically go in a place. How about I just say, ‘Here’s a tape; you can check it out on iTunes. You tell me.’
We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up.
Check your testosterone levels. Every study on evolutionary psychology has correlated testosterone levels with dominance.
I personally like to talk to people when I’m not doing a scene, still acting as if I’m in Gotham when I’m on set because I don’t really like to break character, since I sometimes get distracted. I may get distracted when I’m talking to people and having fun; then I have to check myself.
Sharks don’t particularly have a great interest in divers. It seemed that in a normal dive, I would jump in the water, and one or two gray reef sharks would swim in and kind of check me out – and then they would keep their distance. So they weren’t particularly threatening or anything to be afraid of.
It’s been pretty effortless with Sensa because I am not thinking about how long do I need to do this. Usually, when you stop a diet program, you lose control again. But I don’t need to stop what I’m doing. I’m eating everything that I like. Sensa just helps me keep it all in check.
It’s the polar opposite of most people, but I absolutely hate carrying a ton of stuff onto a plane. I check in all my luggage and literally go through security with nothing other than my coat, in which I have my iPhone and iPad.
Prenups are so unromantic – a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness – you’re fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it.
I used to work at this store, and I got fired when I actually booked the job on ‘Glee’ because I had to go film ‘Glee.’ I was a dancer on ‘Glee.’ My manager was like, ‘Umm this isn’t gonna work, so you can come get your last check this week.’
In Tahoe, you want to be able check on the temperature of the house or turn it on before you get there. Because it’s really cold in the winter.
The first thing I do after waking up is check my phone for news. I like to make sure the world is still here and understand what happened overnight.
Every gun sold should require a background check, period.
If a guy is skilled at anything, that’s attractive. There’s something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It’s really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
Omidyar Network first supported Africa Check in 2014 when they were a team of just three dedicated people intent on building a more fact-based environment for public debate in South Africa.
I don’t have an ego. I check it at the door.
We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.
Together, we can create something new, something bold, and something to act as a check and balance to Washington’s out-of-touch agenda.
You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.
Three women in my family, close relatives, have had breast cancer, and two have died from it, and still I never thought it could happen to me. I didn’t even regularly check my breasts.
Usually, I’ll be auditioning for the third lead, and there will be Latina actresses, Indian actresses, African American actresses because it will be like, ‘Let’s check off this box. We have our lead white girl, and we need an ethnic slot.’
What we want to do to monetize Venmo is to add more and more capabilities. Anywhere you see a PayPal merchant, you can click on that button and actually use your Venmo account to check out at that merchant. Then we’ll monetize that transaction exactly the same way we monetize a PayPal transaction.
I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.
I’m trying to call more and text less. I don’t want to check my phone 5,000 times a day anymore. It was getting to me. I’m bringing ‘old’ back.
I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a movie.
Songwriters, you have to work – you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song’s going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.
In 1990, if I wanted a pair of Calvin Klein jeans I had seen in a magazine, I’d head to the mall, sift through piles of inventory to find my size, try them on, ask the opinion of the often inexperienced sales associate, wait in line to check out, pay, and head home. The process was linear and ripe for improvement.
The ‘Red and Meth’ show was good, but it wasn’t good to me. I just looked at it as an experience and a check.
I check my phone first thing when I wake up in the morning. I usually take it up with me to bed so it’s on the floor next to the bed, although not actually in bed with me, because I really do not want to be the person who sleeps with their phone.
We check everything to make sure it is pure and of the highest quality. There is good wine and bad wine; we buy only the good wine.
When my writing career took off, it was pretty easy to keep my ego in check because old-school martial arts isn’t about ego gratification. It’s about maintaining a balanced view of the world and your place in it.
I tell jokes for a check; I’m on TV for a check.
It’s like an OCD thing, it’s not as much something I enjoy. If I see a chapstick that I’ve never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door’s been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don’t have.
I don’t often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.
Sometimes, I check out film sites if a friend sends me the URL.
You always spend a little more time watching the guys you coached, to see how they’re playing. And there’s no question that when I check scores, I still go to the Nuggets scorer faster than any other scores. I have a lot of love for the players and a lot of love for the city.
I start off by cleansing with the Biore Baking Soda Acne Cleansing Foam. I’ve tried so many different acne products and what I love about this one is it’s very gentle and won’t dry your skin out, all while keeping acne in check.
I’m on tour all the time, so I stop at thrift shops. The minute we hit a town, I’ll have my assistant Googling thrift stores. I have him go check beforehand; then we go there.
When we used to go to the car-wash where people would wipe the windows, my dad would go out and help them and then tip them as well, so I learned my empathy from my dad, and my mum is very empathetic too, but in a very stern way; she will always check my ego.
I had a relationship where we found out each other’s Facebook passwords and would check each other’s messages. That’s not healthy.
I did some chemistry testing – which is one of my favourite things. You go and flirt and see who you fancy and then they check out who had the best chemistry.
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, ‘Ask your mother.’
I’ve always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don’t know why. I don’t like hot weather, and I don’t like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I’d love to go check it out.
If I heard a noise at night, I’d think there was a burglar sneaking around; the first thing I’d do was check on my guitar.
