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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.
You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.
There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.
I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.
It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
You've got to be happy when you play a sad character; otherwise, you just get depressed. Make your real life as fun as possible.
I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.
Unless you and your mate are united in purpose, dedication, and loyalty, you will not succeed to the extent you otherwise could.
Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.
Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise.
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.
I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.
The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.
People feel that in this industry friendships are not for real, but that's not true. Otherwise, what is the point of being friends?
I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.
You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.
I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.
You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.
'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.
I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.
Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.
Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
I think it's my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise I hardly deserve the spotlight, right?
Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.
I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.
My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn't sound romantic, but otherwise it won't get done.
I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.
You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.
I got my very last tattoo after my father died. I'm not getting anymore; otherwise I'll end up like Mike Tyson with a tattoo on my face.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.