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What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.
You're either recording a hit song or you're not; you've either got something that's worth recording or you haven't.
Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem
I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.
When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before.
I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.
At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.
I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.
I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions.
Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven’t been.
People read so much into what I do. It's fascinating to me because some of it's probably there, but I haven't thought of it.
You haven't experienced anything until you've been to Africa. You know the world is bigger than you are after you see Africa.
...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.
...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.
By 78 you've done everything you're going to do. If you haven't bungee-jumped by the time you're 78 you're not going to do it.
You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
There's always someone who cares. Someone whose life would simply stop. You just don't know it yet, or you haven't found them yet.
You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.
I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose.” ~ Haven Travis
If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.
Every time before a collection, I say, "I don't want it to come out. I want to cancel it. It's not good. I haven't achieved anything."
Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.
My haircutter figured out I whine less if I'm under general anesthesia. I just hope when I awaken they haven't given me a Brazilian wax.
All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?
I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them
If you don't give trust to others, it's because you haven't earned it. If you don't have trust form others, it's because YOU haven't earned it.
I never go on Facebook! I like, haven't confirmed anybody to be my friend on Facebook. I have lots of friends; I'm just really bad at Facebook.
Benjamin Graham wrote, "Those with enterprise haven't the money, and those with money haven't the enterprise, to buy stocks when they are cheap."
There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner because we haven’t solved any of the things that caused the previous crisis.
I guess we all have some sort of Rubicon that we haven't crossed in our lives and we've thought about for who knows how long. And for me, it's writing.
It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.
When the afterburner lights, I haven't got 5,000 horsepower. I've got 10,000 horsepower, and possibly the biggest accident you've ever seen in your life.
Oh no. I've just accidently paid a visit to the cakeshop of love. I haven't put back my Italian cakey, but I have accidentally picked up a Dave the Tart.
I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.
There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time.
It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.
How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history?
I haven't looked to my peers for advice because we're all going through the same thing. How do you ask your friends for advice when they're going through the exact same thing?
I started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-'60s - a conga drum and another guitarist. And that's been mostly what I've worked with most of the time.
What makes me say "wow" is usually something I haven't encountered, in a new way... something I haven't encountered before or something I have encountered that I see in a new way.
I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.
One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.
I just feel like there's so many movies I haven't seen that I want to see, that I would never go back to the same one. It's funny because all my friends, they have movies that they've seen over and over again.
I am defined also by Woody Allen’s films and Martin Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch and Julian Schnabel or Almodóvar, or by Guillermo del Toro, Iñárritu, Cuarón. Even if we haven’t worked with them, we are all defined by their filmography.