If you’re dining with someone who wants the same cut, it’s always better to get a 16-ounce steak and split it than to order two eight-ounce steaks. The longer something cooks, the more flavor it develops, so you’ll get a better taste with a bigger piece of meat. – Tom Colicchio
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. – Simone Weil
I’m not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I’m just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out. – Taissa Farmiga
It shifted attention away from that and I’ve never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway. – Steffi Graf
We live in a diverse nation, but it isn’t that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls. – Timothy Noah
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat. – Sylvester Stallone
If you haven’t forgiven someone, it does not hurt that person. They’re sleeping at night. You’re holding onto that, and all the damage is being done to you internally. – Tyler Perry
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. – Warren Bennis
If I can introduce someone to something new, as is constantly happening to me, then I am elated. – Trevor Dunn
I think it’s foolish to interview someone who’s just promoting a movie that they’re in and ask if they consider themselves a feminist. That’s not about feminism; that’s about the journalist wanting to gauge how much this person is aware of the world or is aware of the feminist movement. – Tavi Gevinson
Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else’s? – Wallace Shawn
Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It’s like we’re all in this boat together. – Tavi Gevinson
Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption. – Steven Sinofsky
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone’s moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. – Stanley Fish
When you play so many outcasts and derelicts, or even a murderer, you need to play someone healthy. – William Sanderson
I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn’t know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea. – Tyler Farr
I’m someone who has always been quite clear about what I like. In the studio, I’m not a control freak but I know what I want. – Sophie Ellis-Bextor
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts – but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles. – Shane Black
You have this special connection with someone if you’re their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is. – Shaun Cassidy
I’m a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me. – Youssou N’Dour
We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust. – Steven Pinker
I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing. – Taylor Swift