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We think a person should do right because it's right, not because their soul will be in eternal jeopardy if they don't toe the line.
You've got to listen to your body, notice some trends in yourself and do the best you can to be ready when a finish line approaches.
Sometimes you can play against type, or you can just repeat what they've already done. It can be an obstacle; it's a very fine line.
I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.
Cocaine is yucky. I did it once: I was at a party; I was bored. I was like, 'Alright, I'll do a line.' Then I was just bored longer.
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.
Learning to fully understand the doctrines of the gospel is a process of a lifetime and comes 'line upon line, precept upon precept.
I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.
The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.
Sometimes, I knew generally what I was going to do, but I've never written anything down. Call it a sixth sense: the lines just come.
My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.
Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.
It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest drop is Honolulu.
If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.
As more consumers demand less sugar, the food and beverage manufacturers will eventually come into line with what the consumers want.
I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.
Problems should be solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee should have to wait for a supervisor's permission
Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.
We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.
The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works, cool.
Everyone's showing their thong out the back of their jeans. But you shouldn't wear any. You get a better line if you wear no knickers.
Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.
Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.
Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.
Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.
When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.
Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.
I'm tryin' to build myself bigger than just Ace Hood, I'm tryin' to build myself as a bigger brand - open up clothing lines, colognes.
I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.
Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.
He said you should write about 75 lines every day. You know, Pound was a great one for laying down the law about how you did anything.
It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.
I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.
When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.
There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.
Look. Let’s just say he’s in Tabitha’s line of work. Okay? (Selena) Ladies’ lingerie? He hardly looks the type to sell that. (Sunshine)
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.
I'm endlessly putting myself on tapes for things over in America! I'm always sitting at home, learning lines, sending stuff to America.
The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.