It’s great when people have the confidence to discuss their sexuality if it works for them. I can’t fault someone for not coming out, because I don’t know their journey, what scares them, what’s at stake, or how it will affect their personal life or family.
I think there’s a point at which you know how you dress isn’t going to affect how much you do in life.
If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.
In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting that dispute affect the way he played.
Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.
I wasn’t really big enough when I was filming at school for it to affect anyone too much, but I think my friends that were consistently in my videos during that time definitely got attention that they weren’t anticipating. I’m not quite sure how they felt about it to be honest.
Why can’t black women on stage tell stories that can affect white men in the audience?
In middle school, you’re figuring out how you’re affecting people, and sometimes you’re affecting people negatively. And what sucks is that it can affect people for their whole lives. I didn’t realize I was a part of that.
I have settled on just kind of what I always settle on: To keep getting better and try and affect people positively sometimes. Don’t be so negative all the time.
The appetite of the British people for a long-term involvement in another Middle Eastern conflict could not be weaker. There is no wish to have any further long-term obligations of a military kind that do not affect the most direct national interest.
For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I’ve learned is that it’s really important to find the right support network, focus on the positive things in your life and quiet that negative voice in your head.
The thing is, I feel like it would defeat the purpose of being a musician if I let any kind of fear of failure affect my songwriting or making an album or whatever.
It is the manager and the team that affect performance, not the size of the fund or firm.
I’d always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was getting started as a TV and film actor.
If I have not decided to step down, it does not mean that I do not want to step down but because I want to ensure that my resignation will not affect the constitution, which must be implemented properly. This means that the Pancasila ideology and the 1945 Constitution will continue to be implemented.
I’m a strong believer in the importance of energies – ley lines, energy streams, whatever you wish to call them – within a house. They can affect your health as well as your happiness.
I’m not cynical or bitter in any way. Life’s too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it’s going to affect you. You take it on the chin, you learn, you try not to make the same mistakes.
Taking control of your own creation, you can ultimately affect your future.
As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.
I have never let the personal life affect my professional life.
In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe.
Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.
I’m a law-and-order guy. I mean, I confess I’m a social conservative, but it does not affect my views on cases.
Everyone has a past, but I try not to let that affect the way I see them; I want to get to know who they are today.
I’ve fought in some many different places in the world, even China, so location doesn’t affect much.
Now that sports science is more advanced, we know that there are so many off-pitch factors that can affect how good you can become. If people are telling you to sleep a certain number of hours, eat specific foods, and drink a certain volume of fluids, then you have to be prepared to listen and learn.
While I am a single-issue voter, I certainly don’t live a single-issue existence. Many causes affect my family and me, and I intend to be a voice for those as well.
Personal relationships, mood, chance, or anything like that can actually affect people’s decisions, and when they’re in a position of power, their capriciousness can affect the fate of a nation.
I like stories that affect families.
While cyber espionage is having a tremendous negative affect on the global economy from the theft-caused drain of intellectual property and the resulting adverse incentives for continued investments in innovative growth, the threat from destructive and disruptive attacks is amplifying the risks even further.
When I was younger, every time I stopped work and had a holiday, I’d break out in a rash. A dermatologist put it down to stress, but it never seemed to affect me when I was busy.
That is the real problem of depression – a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it.
I believed in what I was. I didn’t believe that would translate into any of the five championships. But I knew that I could affect the game.
I need to stay consistent, I don’t look too far ahead but just affect what I can affect. To be ready in the right place at the right time to put the ball in the back of the net.
Everyone in life has those critical moments in their life when they know that something they did or didn’t do would affect their future.
I think the thing that helps you get to the next level is being able to affect the game in different ways. And that’s me getting my teammates shots instead of me just coming off pin-downs.
When the movie ‘Sliding Doors’ came out, it almost sent me into existential crisis because I think about that all the time. Like, ‘Wait. If I left my house five minutes later, maybe this would have happened and I’d be on this different track of my life. How would that affect me?’
There’s no stopping same-sex dancing couples. I don’t understand how people being happy can affect others so much – just let them be.
We live in a world at constant risk of public health emergencies. In our increasingly interconnected world, public health emergencies can affect anyone, anywhere.
When I’m in a session with an artist, my job is to help execute their vision – so it’s whatever story they’re telling, and the news doesn’t specifically affect that.
It’s sad that because I have one friend who is in the public eye, just being seen out together once means we’re romantically involved. But I don’t take it seriously, and it doesn’t really affect me much.
I do films that affect me, my family, my friends. I need to be affected by what I am showing.
There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn’t affect Syria alone. I don’t think any issue can ever be isolated into local politics these days, because we all know too much.
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?
I’m not one to trash talk my opponents. If the talk is on, then let’s go, I’ll say the truth – nothing more or less. But it doesn’t affect me in my competition.
I love a ghost story. I think they affect me more than other people that are much more skeptical than I am. I think that it’s good that I do buy into them to some degree.
Even the good things don’t go to my head and I don’t let the bad things affect me.
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
I don’t think you can let comments affect you too much as then you are not doing your job properly.
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.
I had a lot of friends, but none of them I felt super close with. Now that I’m older, I can look back on my teenage self and kind of see the things I did wrong and the things I did right, what affect they had on me, and what affect they had on other people. I can look at it in a much more conducive way to storytelling.
I’m working to be the best – the very best. There are a lot of people in this industry, and I’m trying to be the best. I’m working to affect history in a positive way.
Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I’m concerned that this will affect the quality.
