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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.
It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.
Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.
Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.
I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.
I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
When things begin to go negative, sometimes we just have to cover our ears and not let such circumstances influence us.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
To see a friend who has suffered the loss of all things begin again with trust and love, gives us strength to continue on.
After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.
As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
In a dream, a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.
Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.
When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.
The truth is, you don't ever decide on a role, not when you first begin. You audition for the role, and you're lucky to get it.
Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb 'return' a kind of insidious threat.
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
Before you begin a paranormal investigation, the most important criteria you need to gather is the back history of the location.
The worst thing you can do in a relationship, and what's really unattractive about it, is that people begin to limit each other.
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.