Shifted Quotes

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.
Janice Dickinson

Everything, Cars, Celebrity

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
Daniel J. Boorstin

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.
Sidney Poitier

Number, Films, Return

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
Christy Turlington

Children, Nothing, Understand

As soon as I made it about being healthy and shifted my focus away from the scale, the weight started to come off. I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit - and how I feel.
Alison Sweeney

Focus, Made, Away

Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.
Holly Madison

Life, Amazing, Focus

You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.
Hulk Hogan

Business, Bad, Black

I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
Edie Falco

Life, Work, Family

To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some ways it is worse than a tax. With a tax, the costs are obvious. With a cap-and-trade system, the costs are hidden and shifted around. For that reason, many politicians tend to like it. But that is dangerous.
Bjorn Lomborg

Everything, Around, Reason

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
Armstrong Williams

Power, America, Old

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.
Debra Messing

Life, Mother, Single

If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there.
James Longstreet

Help, Blame, Him

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.
Carson Daly

Old, Become, Company

When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.
Carolyn Murphy

Fashion, Priorities, Daughter

Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.
Bob Graham

War, Away, Year

It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.
Steffi Graf

Someone, Away, Attention

Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed to represent the small government philosophy - limited spending, low taxes. Obviously, things have shifted.
Andrew Sullivan

Government, Past, Philosophy

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.
Robert Musil

Thoughts, Here, Again

The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.
Hideki Tojo

War, Strong, Made

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.
Imelda Staunton

Time, Attitude, Yourself

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
Richard Attenborough

Love, View, Biography

My research interests since then have shifted strongly towards the economic and regulatory problems of the financial services industry, and especially of the securities and options exchanges.
Merton Miller

Problems, Research, Since

I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.
Douglass North

Peace, War, Become

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.
William Irwin Thompson

Change, Science, Universe

Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools.
Erik Qualman

Difficult, Kids, Days

Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.
Gotye

Sometimes, Around, Sure

Don't shift because fashion has shifted. Don't move from the original ethic you had, the original reasons. They're part and parcel of you.
Roy Harper

Fashion, Move, Original

All the cameras shifted from the players to me.
Lesley Visser

Players, Cameras

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.
Charles Henry Parkhurst

Science, Problems, Solved

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