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Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
To join in the political fray, I don't think it convinces anyone. It just becomes a talking point on CNN.
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
A good restaurant is like a vacation; it transports you, and it becomes a lot more than just about the food.
As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
Getting through the day becomes more important than living a long life when you have no one else to live for.
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.
Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.
Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative.
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.
Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
A good knife is an essential tool in the kitchen, but when you get one handmade, it becomes something special.
When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
What actor do you really take seriously who becomes a singer? It's kind of ridiculous. I can't think of anybody.
Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.
We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.
As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
When you increase productivity, economies become better - local economies become better, society becomes better.
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.