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When a person says only what others love to hear, he is largely liked; but if he loves to say what he likes only, then others hardly hear him.
Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.
If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.
You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
If you don't like your sister or don't get along with your father, let's find out if you like yourself. Let's not sugarcoat anything about it.
If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.
IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.
If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.
If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back. That's what I was always told as a kid, and It's worked for me so far!
"What did the pope say? I like the pope. I mean, was it good or bad?"Because if it's good, I like the pope. If it's bad, I don't like the pope.
My thing is that if you don't really connect to something or see that it's going to be something you're going to be proud of, I wouldn't do it.
I figured that if anyone could be wildly popular in one town, then that could be replicated everywhere, all you have to do is get the word out.
I spend a fair amount of time just thinking about whether something is feasible or not, and if it is feasible, whether it's really worth doing.
Music is a reflection of who you are, and if those things that you mentioned are what your music is all about, then I guess that's who you are.
If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that's all you can control. You can't control any of what's out there, outside yourself.
I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.
I believe that we are the generation that will rise and fulfill the Great Commission. But if we don't; some generation will. God has decreed it!
You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.
If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?
I can't make two records at the same time. Whatever I do, I have to concentrate on and put everything in, because if I don't, I'm just not good.
She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men.
If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.
If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.
If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.
Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.
Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.
It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go.
If you don't have to lie, you don't have to remember anything. You can just go. That's really where I'm at. It's just making it up as I go along.
A couple of things have helped. One is that I dont travel any, that takes a lot of time from peoples schedules, if they travel, so I dont travel.
If we know that we are now at the point where we have always wanted to be, we will be there. . . because we are never there but always here, now!
What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.
Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.
There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.
What you come to discover is, it isn't how you get there, it's that you get there. If that's what it took to get me where I'm at today, so be it.
You've got to write badly. If you write badly at least you've got something to rewrite. If you're scared to write badly, then you've got nothing.
You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.
You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be a recognized beauty once again.
No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.
Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?
If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on.
As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.
When you're younger, you ride with 90% physical and 10% mental. But if you could learn how to use 90% mental and 10% physical you'd be better off.
If we can't quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing.
Jace, There is no wedding! Stop Isabelle! Sit on her if you have to. Just stop her from doing whatever she's doing or I can never come home. -Alec
If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.
If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now.I never thought i'd be where I am now, but the fact that I am is pretty cool.
If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry
And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell, and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.
You've gotten so caught up in being alone that you're afraid of what might happen if you actually find someone else that can take you away from it.
Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.