Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
Cal Thomas

That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.
Shelby Lynne

Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea.
Dave Rowntree

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
Wayne Kramer

William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.
Glenn Ford

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.
Dorothy Dunnett

The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes.
Rita Moreno

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work.
Claudia Black

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
Adam Ant

We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
Barney Ross

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.
Wendy Carlos

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.
Steve Swallow

I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?
Matt Lauer

Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.
Ann Sothern

I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.
Rick Schroder

Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.
Frank Gifford

That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.
Bert Lahr

We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.
Harvey Weinstein

We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.
Dino De Laurentiis

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
Carl Perkins