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...those who think that faith is superior to reason, and try to reason me into thinking that way; why don't they faith me into it?
I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.
Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.
With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.
If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
The only way to pass any test is to take the test. All tests on every level are always repeated one way or another until you pass.
I'm going out... because I deserve to go out! And I'm going to get drunk... because I deserve to get drunk! And get out of my way!
It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.
Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
Believe me, there is no goal, nor a way to reach it. You are the way and the goal, there is nothing else to reach except yourself.
The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.
God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.
Good, bad or indifferent, I'm transparent with my opinions and what I believe. I just don't think in politics you can be that way.
There is no way to work your way to God. There is no way to climb up to heaven. There is only one way, and that is through Christ.
I knew absolutely nothing about bondage. I'd always presumed it was just an inventive way of keeping your partner from going home.
The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace."
In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.
What interests me is the way people regard themselves. When we are 15, we all feel as if we are beginning to become somebody else.
My mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.
I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate... It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity.
The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).
Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.
I never plan anything in an analytical way before I shoot, but when I look back there seems to be kind of a primary color palette.
Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.
Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.
The way it works for us is, when I watch a character and I connect to a character, I'd love to bring them back and see them again.
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.
Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.
Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.
Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.
I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.
Sociologists say that going to the movies is a bonding experience. It probably has to do with the way you feet stick to the floor.
I can’t really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.
I never suffered for lack of confidence. I knew I would succeed; you have to. I think I couldn't go into any venture any other way.
Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.
Long before there was Marilyn Manson, long before there was Alice Cooper, way before Ozzy Osbourne, there was Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.
Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth.
Nature has a way of taking care of things. If you have a certain figure you'll go back to it. Breast feed and don't worry about it.
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.