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I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
There are people who try to judge. I'm cool with that. I don't care what nobody say - the only thing that can defeat hate is love.
I think I'm gonna wear Timberlands until I die, man. They may not be the hottest thing out, but Timbs keep reinventing themselves.
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.
The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.
I'm legally blind in one eye, and one eye is a totally different size than the other, and I have, like, a weird crossed-eye thing.
I was getting depressed, I was going out, having a few drinks and the worst thing you can do with depression is add alcohol to it.
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
The funny thing about nationalism is that there are two sides to it. Some parts of it are beautiful, but there's an ugly side as well.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.
Typically, my advice to young artists is not to wait for someone to allow you to do the thing. Just do the thing, and they'll catch up.
There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.
The one thing you learn is when you can step out of your comfort zone and be uncomfortable, you see what you're made of and who you are.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
Here's the thing: every office I've run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.
The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.
I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.
Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.
'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds.
Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that. It must be magic.
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
I think I've got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life, and I love nature, and I can't see why other people can't be like that.
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.
The biggest lesson that I've learnt is that things can change so quickly, never get used to one thing because everything can flip on it's head.
Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.