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Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Like any sport, if you can clinch it sooner, clinch it sooner. It just makes the celebration that much sweeter.
You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
The thing about sex is not that you're naked physically, but if you do it right, that you're naked emotionally.
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.
Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
Failure is just part of life; it happens to everyone. Yet, it doesn't have to be crippling if you don't let it.
I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.
If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.
I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.
See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.
If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.
If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing - and you will have it all!
One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.
Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.
I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.
You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.
And if you are somebody who needs to get a pat on the back for everything that you do, editorial is not for you.
Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.
You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.
If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around.
One of the Baathists once told me, "If you're not careful, I'll have you put away," and those words meant death.
When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.
Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.
Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.
I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.
If Bruce Jenner says he's woman then I'm not gonna argue with him. I know what obviously and biologically he is.
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
I think it's important to say something. If you're making music it's kinda' like, oh, cool, so is everyone else.
In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.
When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.
If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are--and that's probably what they will become.
If you are going to emphasize certain words in the headline, be sure that they are the words that say something.
If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.
Hacking is very interesting. Once they hack, if you don't catch them in the act, you're not going to catch them.
If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.
When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.
After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.
If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.
When you read something that good, it's terrifying because you're thinking, "Oh, god, what if I don't get this?"
What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time!
He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania
I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?"
Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.