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I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost.
Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
There's two ways of working in Washington, ... One is to go along and get along. The other is to stand up for what you believe in.
If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking.
Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
The next generation will remake the world in a way that allows us to live in a more sustainable way, both personally and globally.
You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.
Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.
In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best.
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.
I thought there was a good chance the fridge was possessed. It was subtle about it, but I had its number. I knew its ways. Oh yes.
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.
I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill a lot of wells.
I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.
The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.
[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.
I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way
Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an example to young women and I've always given my best in everything I've tried.
I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Its nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control.
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.
There are always people who are going to be opportunistic when they see situations unfolding the way that they are in New Orleans.
It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
It won't do you any good to run if you're running the wrong way. I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.
I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.
It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.
To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated.
A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.
some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.
Baz Luhrrman's movie Romeo and Juliet is what made me decide that I wanted to dedicate my life to making films one way or another.
Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.
Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.
If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.
there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.
I don't consider myself a heartthrob in any way. I'm just pinching myself. I'm truly fortunate to be a part of this whole process.
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.