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When you go, 'Listen, I didn't know. I didn't know the rules.' That works. That's a good, solid defense. One time.
I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.
We didn't invent gunpowder. What we did was take things that were there and put them together in a way that works.
The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.
Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.
We deserve an economy that works in every county, for every Georgian, and helps families thrive - not just survive.
A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.
Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.
When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.
That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.
I am grateful to everybody: the training staff, my fellow players, and everybody who works for the club. It is just great.
Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men.
The Foreign Office works hard to remind people of local laws and customs as often they can be very different to British law.
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
Economic inequality is systemic, and one of the most effective barriers is ignorance about how money works beyond the basics.
I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.
In my own works I am an obsessionist. Though I write humorous music too, much of it has been obsessed by death and the tragic.
Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.
Whether you talk about Africa or underbanked communities, these are all examples where Ripple can change the way society works.
The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
The pooling operation used in convolutional neural networks is a big mistake, and the fact that it works so well is a disaster.
Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.
You can always enhance your natural beauty; you learn what works for your face because crazy make-up doesn't really suit anyone.
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.
I make my money off of touring and merchandise. And I'm lucky I have really loyal fans that understand how it works and support.
I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.
When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever reason.
I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.
I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.
It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.
I can sit and write clever things, but that never quite works as well as when I'm just chatting about stupid things in the moment.