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Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's.
Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?" "I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me!
Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
It wasn't God who introduced us to morality; rather, it was the other way around. God was put into place to help us live the way we felt we ought to.
The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.
I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space.
Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
The Web itself doesn't as much change the way we do things as it changes the ease with which we do things. And that changes the way we do everything.
I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.
I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you, and that's why we broke up.
If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.
[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.
Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.
I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.
Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through.
Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.
Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.
I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me.
Nixon was a conservative who’s way more liberal than his party can admit, and Obama’s a liberal who’s way more conservative than his party can admit.
I would love to see us all succeed together, but we will do what we have to do to succeed and survive in that sustainable way that benefits everyone.
The universe is limitless and so are you. There is a limitless supply of good that the universe wants to show you. Step out of the way and let it be!
Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.
Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.
I think everybody focuses on race, but it's about a ton of things, and I just see these things as all interrelated and all interwoven in a weird way.
Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.
The terrorist threat to American troops has decreased in some ways because there's not 175,000 in a dangerous part of the world. There's only 15,000.
You could have a kid that is going to get in trouble a little bit, and you can teach them as much as you can, and hopefully they'll go the right way.
Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.
There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.
I would like to do something really big and then something really small, and see what it's like to work in that way, but in front of a live audience.
In the end, the best way to succeed is to go small. And when you go small, you say no - a lot. A lot more than you might have even considered before.
For until ye become as a savior, as a help to some soul that has lost hope, lost its way, ye do not fully comprehend the god within, the god without.
It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.
The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It's a completely different way to get entertainment.
I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.
Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.
That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.
The problem with fault-findingIs that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task.
There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.
Alec looked merely irritated by this comment. "The only way you could raise enough money to hire Magnus by selling lemonade is if you put meth in it.
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.
On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that people still drown.
Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made.
I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.
"My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I'm sure," she says, adding, "I'll never know if that's true. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is."
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.