Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
I had an idea, I was passionate about it and I had to work hard to turn that into a big success and more products.
We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity.
I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.
Neodymium is one of 17 'rare-earth metals,' and these elements have turned out to be critical to the rapidly-growing green technology industries.
Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.
I love turning on the computer in the morning and reading the things that I did the day before - that I didn't do!
Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.
I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.
People are always looking at their phones and computer. It's the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone's keeping in touch and getting their news.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Women find men attractive who are aggressive... but later on, they get worried that that aggression, that alpha energy, is going to be turned back against them and their children.
Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.
Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.
