The One Thing Quotes

I never have time to myself; it's the one thing about my life I would probably hope to change.
Juliet Stevenson

Life, Change, Time

The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake.
Stephen F. Lynch

Job, After, Weather

I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.
Terry Jones

Able, Write, Act

The one thing I seek above all else is understanding. Sometimes I'm so frustrated and I don't get it. But I'm lucky to have a good management team and people around me who explain things and answer my questions.
Justin Guarini

Good, Sometimes, Team

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.
Nick Lowe

Rock, Punk, Along

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.
Doug Collins

Today, Tough, Grow

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.
Indra Nooyi

Leadership, Business, Different

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.
Benjamin Bratt

Work, Men, Death

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
Benjamin Bratt

Work, Death, Bored

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.
Juliette Lewis

Live, Wanted, Act

When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.
John Bates Clark

Freedom, Mean, Liberty

I think the one thing that most stands out is that my father always did what he believed to be the right thing to do and he always told us that we had to go our own way even if he disagreed.
Klaus Fuchs

Father, Stands, Believed

And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go back to historical levels or even go back to scary thoughts that they're back in the late '70s, early '80s, then that's going to really be hard to actually pay off those debts. It's going to be a - it's going to be a very big problem.
Ben Quayle

Hard, Thoughts, Understand

The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
Bar Refaeli

Around, Three, Walk

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
Lois McMaster Bujold

Heart, May, Matter

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
Scott Turow

Worth, Books, Written

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
Ed Wood

Movies, Successful, Saying

The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food.
Rob Mariano

Food, Wedding, Charge

The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction.
Mary Ann Mobley

Home, Thinking, Two

I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine.
Michael Nyman

Music, Him, Wanted

I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.
Glenn Ford

Experience, Down, Learned

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.
Robert Kagan

Life, Age, True

The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make.
David Pratt

Forget, Seem, Price

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.
Michael Douglas

Women, Men, Both

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.
Thomas Kincade

Personal, Talent, Kid

The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.
Alexander Kluge

The one thing women love more than money is power.
D. L. Hughley

Love, Money, Women

The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level.
Terrell Davis

Success, Everything, Trying

The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.
Phil Hartman

Live, Night, Weird

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.
William Friedkin

Life, Eyes, Everybody

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