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It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.
Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.
The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do.
Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.
It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song. The music is speaking for itself.
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
If you bite and chew the peel of a banana, then eat the fruit of the banana itself, you will find that it tastes like a tomato. I swear.
There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
One of the great conundrums in philanthropy globally is that the way wealth creation happens itself often creates the inequities in society.
I like to let my work ethic speak for itself, just things of that nature, like the way I go about practice and show these guys how to do it.
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.
Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.
You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.
The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my work and hopefully it speaks for itself.
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
Whenever a political regime or religious establishment refuses to tolerate criticism, it advertises itself as repressive, backward, and insecure.
There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Wouldn't it be something if Liberty's votes were enough to change which presidential candidate won Virginia and maybe even the presidency itself?
I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.