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Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.
If you look at all the movies that have made tons of money, almost all of them are great movies. Even Titanic. I think Titanic is a great movie.
I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.
Sage made me complete. He made me happy. He was as much a part of me as my own body. How could anyone lose that and still exist?" - Clea Raymond
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.
After you have made your commitment to say no to what no longer serves you, you will probably be invited to demonstrate that you really mean it.
I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on Libya.
God made us for more than just barely getting by. We weren't meant to sit on the sidelines of life because with God, we are on the winning team!
Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.
A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of the Constitution.
Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones.
God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.
I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.
God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.
I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up.
Once I'm satisfied and I've made enough money where I can afford to live in Malibu, because it's very expensive, I will definitely be back there.
My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.
Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it.
We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.
We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe.
In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
There aren't a lot of situations where I look back and I say, The decision I actually made or the course we actually pursued was the wrong course.
Helloooo? I just made some changes in my life, and if I don't get back to you as soon as possible, then guess what? You were one of those changes.
You perform the thing that you made, that's inside of you, and to subject that to any kind of scrutiny is terrifying. It's still terrifying to me.
American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.
God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed.
Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.
Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.
I don't really like approach music to become famous. I've actually consciously made the decision that I'm just going to do music because I love it.
[Jane] Roe has made it not only possible, but has found it constitutional to kill a whole class of people, simply because of their genetic make-up.
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person.
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over again.
I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.
Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.
No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.
It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade.
Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.
We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.
Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.
When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.