I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, ‘You’re wrong: Go check the tape.’
In life, you have to keep certain parts of yourself in check because you want to be a decent human being. But one of the guilty pleasures of acting is that sometimes you get to let a little something out that you don’t in life because it’s not right.
My dad signed me up for some acting classes at a place in Honolulu, and there I got to audition for some L.A.-based talent agents. I got a few ‘callbacks’ and so my mom and I decided to fly to California and check it out!
When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that ‘you got mail,’ you were excited. I mean, that was the thing.
If you don’t keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.
As a grown adult, if you can’t look a woman or look a man in the eye and say, ‘I have serious feelings for you’ and instead you have to say, ‘Do you like me? Check yes or no,’ like we’re in grade school, that to me is a red flag of maturity as far as a relationship goes.
To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with – an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don’t neglect Internet research.
I was the kind of girl who’d peep through her bedroom keyhole to check if her dolls were moving.
So I think you want to keep a keen eye on things. Grab it and go. Sure, you check your financials, but don’t be afraid to take a jump. Learn the trends.
So you don’t speak English, you have no ID, you can’t tell where you’re from… that’s suspicion, it’s lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out.
I remember, in school during English lessons, I would ask the teacher what were the most difficult books to read, and when she’d say ‘Ulysses’ or something, I’d run off to the library to check out a copy, eager to attempt the most difficult mountain.
With Ice Cube they ain’t no telling. He might have one cocked and loaded, ready to bust. We might do The Sunday, two old men sitting around the house waiting on the social security check.
So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.
I always tell people if you think you are susceptible to a blood clot, go check with your doctor.
Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you’re trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, ‘You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.’
I don’t check for Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly or any of these demons on the Right. They don’t wake me up in the morning. I don’t care about them, and they certainly don’t drive the conversations I’m thinking about, but they do have an audience, and they do lie all day, every day about disenfranchised people.
I have to always check back in with my imagination just to remember that I have this infinite potential, and I can do anything, and anything is possible.
My game plan is very simple. If something good comes up, I will check if those required dates are free and I will do the film. Regardless of the language and the scope of the project.
Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they’ll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they’ll, well, check out a lot sooner too.
When I want to check out how my life’s been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.
It’s one thing to reject the idea that it’s a man’s job to bring home all the bacon; it’s another the 500th time your wife reaches for the check at dinner.
I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true. And I think I may have introduced a word which has now caught on quite a bit, scientism. Science is good. It simply reports a discovery.
Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremism and intolerance. Saudi Arabia also exports instability with its brutal war in Yemen, intended to check what it sees as Iranian influence.
If people want to watch music videos you can go to Youtube. But it would be great if there was still music on TV that people could check out and be visually excited by an artist.
My wife tells me I should check out ‘Downton Abbey’, but I gather that series might be almost too intense for my temperate nature.
In 2005, attorneys general of 35 states urged the Federal Reserve to end the unsigned check system.
We need to build on what we know works – local oversight of schools to keep a check on performance, timely interventions in schools to support those at risk of failing, and partnerships between schools to help each one to improve.
To have people with – with psychological problems have a background check before they can buy a weapon? I don’t think the NRA would pull me off that one. If they do, then I need to be pulled off it because… you can’t give a weapon to someone who has mental issues, right.
I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.
When I was released from prison 15 years ago, I was given a $25 check and a bus ticket and told to start my life over.
Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ’cause it’s life or death for real.
I try to keep my own career in check, but when I came to America there were very few people wrestling.
There are, in fact, apps you can use to measure how many times you check your phone, and I shudder to think how many times I check my phone. I’m sure it would be probably in the hundreds of times that I check over the course of the day.
What destroyed the Republican Party isn’t Trump. It’s the obedience to Trump from servile leaders like McConnell and Ryan who could have put a check on him. They have gotten their place in political history. They’ll be remembered as vile.
If we are going to be serious about enforcing the law, we have to have a background record check system to make sure that people don’t get weapons who shouldn’t.
If you deal in hair loss, you constantly check the hairline of anyone who walks up to you. It’s the first thing I look at.
The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
A major part of being prepared is having a plan. Local calls don’t always work in the immediate vicinity of a disaster, so it’s important to have an out-of-town contact with whom the entire family can check in.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
It doesn’t matter if that felony happened three weeks ago or thirty-five years ago – for the rest of your life, you’ve got to check that box, knowing full well the odds are sky-high your application is going straight to the trash.
I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.
Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.
I have seen how payday lenders and check cashing outfits set up in towns around military bases to take advantage of young service members, whose starting salaries are barely over $20,000 per year.
Working out grounds you in your body and in the moment so if I’m ever feeling fuzzy headed a workout always helps check in with the moment.
My only piece of advice is that all of you consider every single text and Snapchat that you ever make as also being shared with your partner, because they all check your phones all the time – trust me on this one.
People can get lost in the movie star world. They can’t check in with reality, whereas I live at home with me girl, surrounded by real people.
I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, ‘Look, that sort of attitude isn’t good enough.’ It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out.
I do have a Twitter account, and there’s a woman at my agency who got that all set up for me. I don’t know how many followers I have. It’s not one of those things I check on a regular basis.
With music you spend so much time standing on stage in front of an audience you get a false sense of your own importance. It’s worth keeping that in check.
We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there’s an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we’d best pay attention to what’s going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.
Life, especially life on soaps, sometimes needs a reality check.
