You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.
~By Werner Klemperer ~
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.
~By George William Norris ~
I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.
~By Leonard Baskin ~
Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.
~By Bernard Ebbers ~
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.
~By Henri Poincare ~
We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.
~By Gavin MacLeod ~
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.
~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.
~By Christine Pelosi ~
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.
~By Peter Sarsgaard ~
My favourite sport is cheerleading!
~By Miley Cyrus ~
Disney was a family film studio. I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with someone, that was the end of Disney.
~By Tommy Kirk ~
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
~By Fletcher Knebel ~
I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.
~By Richard Ernst ~
Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.
~By Deng Xiaoping ~
It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
Well, mines was a sub machine gun. That was my personal weapon with being the first person in the patrol. I used to lead the patrol. Used to have a leading scout, a second scout and then the officer. The officer would be third. As I say, it was educational.
~By David Walker ~
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.
~By Matthew Lesko ~
From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.
~By Ron Paul ~
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
~By Maude Adams ~
So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
~By Gary Cole ~
That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.
~By Paul Sarbanes ~
Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread.
~By Benjamin Cohen ~
My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
~By Anita Brookner ~
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
~By Cesar Romero ~
Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
~By Al Sharpton ~
The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.
~By Gerd von Rundstedt ~
As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.
~By Jeff Bridges ~
And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.
~By Lee Krasner ~
You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control.
~By Jeff Gordon ~
There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.
~By Hernando Cortes ~
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
~By Patricia Clarkson ~
Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction.
~By Henry W. Kendall ~
I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.
~By Brion James ~
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
~By Neal Boortz ~
Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the female and the right studio. It's got to all gel together, you know what I mean?
~By Mike Epps ~
We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
~By Calamity Jane ~
No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people.
~By Joe Slovo ~
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
~By Walt Disney ~
I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.
~By DeForest Kelley ~
If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.
~By Andrew Shue ~
Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.
~By James Meade ~
By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.
~By Simon Conway Morris ~
Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
~By Alec Guinness ~
Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.
~By Rick Perry ~
Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.
~By Ernst Toller ~
Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role.
~By Jerry Greenfield ~
The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.
~By Zoe Lofgren ~
Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.
~By Josh Holloway ~
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
~By Geoffrey Rush ~
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
~By M. H. Abrams ~
The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.
~By Matthew Ashford ~
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.
~By Richard Petty ~
A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability.
~By Peter Hain ~
No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.
~By Frederick Pollock ~
Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.
~By Francis Darwin ~
It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
~By Ferdinand Christian Baur ~
A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.
~By Charles Dance ~
I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.
~By Luke Ford ~
I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
~By Colin Powell ~
Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.
~By Knute Rockne ~
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.
~By Osama bin Laden ~
In order to set forth the goodness of God towards myself, I have thought it prudent to record some of the leading incidents of my life, as a means of setting forth to my children that He is a rewarder of them who diligently seek Him.
~By William Rowley ~
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
~By Karen Armstrong ~
We will host the Asean summit in November this year. It will be an occasion to reflect on our achievements collectively and to look at how Asean can maintain its leading role in regional and international cooperation.
~By Hassanal Bolkiah ~
If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.
~By John Boehner ~
In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.
~By Michael Kinsley ~
Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
~By Ian Smith ~
Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
~By Cab Calloway ~
National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.
~By Peter Weir ~
I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.
~By Peter Shaffer ~
The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children.
~By Jerry Costello ~
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
~By Alice Hamilton ~
In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.
~By Tran Duc Luong ~
Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.
~By Donald L. Carcieri ~
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
~By Fletcher Knebel ~
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