Quotes About Recognition

'Dancin' was exceptionally significant. I was in an original Broadway show and nominated for a Tony.

If you were to ask Tony Dungy if he feels like homophobia is in his level of thinking or if he's homophobic, he'd say no. Well, if you were to ask Donald Sterling if he sees how his comments are racist, he said no, too. Some people don't recognize their own racism, homophobia.

There are people who can out-twiddle me all over the place. But Ive got a very distinctive voice. Whatever I sing, you know its Tony Hadley. And that is 99per cent of being a frontman.

I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.

I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.

There's so much burying of heads in sand going on in the U.S., people are finally beginning to recognize that the environment is dying, but it's far too late, and I am conflicted.

I'm very grateful for the other bands and artists that stood up for us with a view to our induction - that's nice of them. But I wish that the Hall Of Fame had had the discretion to ask us first. It's now become a debate in which we are too late to have the final word.

Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.

All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.

I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.

I feel like being a 2019 XXL Freshman is just, it's important for me because not too many women can say they've... gotten anything like this, not too many people from where I come from can say that they've gotten anything like this.

I wasn't looking too much into my social media when I was on K2, but overall it's been really humbling to see all of the appreciation.

It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea.

You have to respect people for what they do. Just because you don't like it, it's like, I don't like heavy metal too much, but I can still respect it.

I have a certain amount of difficulty dealing with too much limelight.

I don't like my ego stroked too much.

I don't really like too much credit. I know nobody's going to believe this, but I'd rather be able to score goals and nobody saw or even spoke about it. That would be just about the perfect world for me.

When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging?

My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

With 'Nighty Night' series one, Oprah Winfrey's channel took it on, so she must have liked it.

When I joined Google, it was 1,000 people. It took me two and a half years to look around and realize there weren't a lot of people like me.