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I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.
That's life. You've got to deal with it, good and bad. We'll be all right. I mean, if we make the chase, we make it. If we don't, we don't.
The way I've been able to embrace fame is by realizing that celebrity is just a means to send whatever message you want out into the world.
It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be doing all the rowing?
Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.
When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.
I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.
I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.
The depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.
So, we’ve got a problem,” I said. “What?” Lend yelled. “We’ve got a problem!” I shouted. “No, I heard that. I mean, what’s the problem now?
More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible
Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.
When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.
Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.
The fact that Brazil and Chile now has China as their largest trading partner means the Monroe Doctrine is certainly something of the past.
Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.
Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.
Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.
You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.
Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.
Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.
I love the crossbow. I mean it's just fun. Guns are fun, I can't deny that shooting guns in movies isn't fun. But a crossbow is pretty rad.
You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful.
Karma simply means that whatever type of energy you project, or you allow to pass through your being, you will become for a period of time.
Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.
We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.
I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.
Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.
When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.
Love means setting aside walls, fences, and unlocking doors and saying 'Yes.' One can be in paradise by simply saying 'yes' to this moment.
Standup comedy is fun. I mean other than having to experience the excruciating lonlieness and unacknowledged sadness that results in funny.
I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.
This is so sexist. I mean, are we really going to put this as a standard of something we are going to judge our presidential candidates by?