I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

You should never do something kind in hopes of recognition. Do it because its right. Do it because it makes you feel good.

There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.

It's very short-sighted and even dangerous to be engaging in the kind of demagogic rhetoric that Donald has about Muslims.

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

Then how about we start with a shower," he said in the kind of deep voice that made her consider the value of cleanliness.

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

I just love music. I love all kinds of music, and I was exposed to it, me and my siblings, from the time we were in utero.

When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.

When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

One thing that I'm kind of disturbed at is actually being on the television, acting, being in something that's mainstream.

This is a good thing, mixing culture to make something new, something no one has ever seen. This is kind of a new history.

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

We've been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.

You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff.

...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

We are all human magnets. Our deeds, attitudes and thoughts attract in kind. Gets back with interest exactly what he sends.

The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.

The rest of Europe tends to be very comfortable with sexuality. The British and the Americans are kind of hung up about it.

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all.

You feel quite strangely secure [doing any kind of series]. It's the opposite of how you're supposed to feel doing a movie.

Uhh Gosh, I.. don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those, uhh, exaggerations.

I don't want to impose on anyone else and make anyone else emotional or anything. I tend to quietly cry, kind of turn away.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

Any time you get a role that's a young person, that resembles what it's like to be a teenager, I always kind of jump at it.

The right kind of fear will keep us from doing wrong. The rough is only mental - it is rough only because your think it is.

It's easy to kind of say it's the elite that's putting you down. Well, it wasn't really the elite, technology will do that.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts.

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

I was kind of pathetic. That's what got me playing out in the street. I ran out of money and needed more gin for the night.

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world.

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

I check fashion magazines when I'm published in them to make sure that my work looks good, and then I kind of put it aside.

Me not showing any emotion is not the best for me. I've tried that. It kind of bottles up, and then at some point explodes.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

I recognize that there are some great things about not playing a song live, and just kind of piecing it together as you go.

To be influenced by a magazine and, say, a Swedish theme, unless it resonates with you, it seems kind of odd and influenced.

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