Me Quotes

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

~ Gina Carano

It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.

~ Barbara Demick

I'm a morning person, so rising at 4-something on weekends is not a huge challenge for me. I am not, however, much of a morning eater - not at that hour, at least.

~ Lester Holt

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

~ Tony Parsons

My wife gets pampered pretty well. She's had me trained since she was pregnant, when I started making her oatmeal with fresh berries every morning.

~ Michael Weatherly

My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'

~ Russell Wilson

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

~ James Rollins

Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

~ Ronnie O'sullivan

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

~ Daniel Stern

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

~ A. A. Milne

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

~ Ken Robinson

I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.

~ Sebastian Thrun

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

~ Damon Albarn

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.

~ Michio Kaku

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

~ Mark Twain

I like a guy who's sarcastic, serious, sensitive - even just silent. But you have to do it at the right times. That's sexy. To me, it reflects intelligence.

~ Moran Atias

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.

~ Rush Limbaugh

There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Is E.T. out there? Well, I work at the SETI Institute. That's almost my name. SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. In other words, I look for aliens, and when I tell people that at a cocktail party, they usually look at me with a mildly incredulous look on their face. I try to keep my own face somewhat dispassionate.

~ Seth Shostak

If there's intelligence behind an opinion, then I'm all for expressing it, but I would never just start a fight with someone for the sake of it - that's just not me.

~ Charli Xcx

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

~ Sebastian Thrun

As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.

~ Douglas Rushkoff

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do.

~ David Ignatius

The president says, 'What difference does it make what you call the enemy?' Are you kidding me? As an intelligence officer, I would never get away with that. I could never say, 'Well, you know, boss, I don't label this enemy that we're facing.'

~ Michael T. Flynn

When I was working on 'Homeland,' there was a consultant who helped me a lot... I went to Washington and met with my consultant there, and he actually organised a lunch with several people from the Intelligence Committee.

~ Miranda Otto

Intelligence work in the Marine Corps proved to me the strategic value in establishing a Central Command to act as a clearinghouse for disparate bits and floating bytes of information.

~ Todd Young

Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.

~ Curtis Jackson

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

~ Elizabeth Hurley

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

~ Ethel Waters

I spent over 10 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, serving overseas, serving in the Middle East. And let me tell you, if you're a terrorist and you want to come to the United States, the worst possible way to do it is as a refugee. You'll go through a year and a half to two years of vetting.

~ Evan Mcmullin

People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

~ Danny Aiello

Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

~ Danny Aiello

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

~ James Whistler

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

~ Margaret Anderson

I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won't even start eating until he's sure everyone else in the family has started eating. Another thing: My dad never judges me by whether I win or lose.

~ Ben Roethlisberger

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

~ Charlize Theron

Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.

~ John Lasseter

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

~ Tupac Shakur