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I have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one else would see them that way.
You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.
My excitement about my life and my future makes me happy, because I am a dreamer, and I always dream, no matter how many obstacles are in my way.
I'm just going with the flow. I'm in the process, I'm on the path. I'm really working towards all of my goals and music is definitely on the way.
You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries her, he's what he is.
I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.
We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.
We need to start imagining the future or it will get imagined for us, and the ways that it has been imagined thus far don't seem very attractive.
Sit around the bars, talked to people, ate in the restaurants, and chatted with the old ladies on the street. Fishermen are pretty much that way.
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer.
Designers have a responsibility to show the future as they want it to be - or at least as it can be, not just the way an industry wants it to be.
I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.
I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.
A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort
No one is self-sufficient. And it's not a one-way thing- -the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind from the other side.
... the way to thrive is to help others thrive; the way to flourish is to help others flourish; the way to fulfill yourself is to spend yourself.
Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?
You do what you know is good, because it's good, and then you have a certain peace of mind, saying, you've been an activist in a constructive way.
I know it sounds cliche but I believe in an essential way, it's very true that being a Christian is having a relationship with God through Christ.
If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.
Impossible is not a fact... it's an opinion. What's impossible only remains so until someone finds a way to do what others are sure can't be done.
For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
Power is just so much part of the human being because power is survival. But I wonder if that is the best way to survive, by killing someone else.
I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.
It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.
Whatever direction your life takes, your underlying themes remain. Discover and explore your themes to open the way for rich creative development.
It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.
If I go back to the beginning, I could start it over again. I could go line by line; try and find a shorter way. I could try to make it... better.
A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.
He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.
The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.
Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions.
Yoga is a way to produce a chemistry of blissfulness. Once you are blissful by your own nature, you can deal with outside situations effortlessly.
I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.
The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.
Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up?
If I'm speaking it means that in one way or another when I say, "I'm cold" it belongs to me: I'm cold. But just by saying this it becomes general.
Yes ...I am a demon. There's no way I could understand my prey, a human's sense of taste. What I understand is...only the taste of a human's soul.
Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!
Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.
I've been naked physically in movies - but it's a whole other thing to be naked emotionally in a way that's not just a distraction or a character.
Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.
Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.