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The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation.
When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.
I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.
The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't.
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
You can't give up on me. If you give up, then I'm going to break into a million pieces. I'm here. I'll give you everything I've got.
Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.
I am in constant search for that project that speaks to me personally. And when all the pieces come together properly, it'll happen.
In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.
It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat.
I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.
I'm not a star. I don't feel I'm so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you've got my signature on a piece of paper?
Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.
We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.
Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get hungry.
I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.
In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.
I think, by and large, the way big social change happens is every individual person taking on whatever little piece they can take on.
Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?
I don't do drugs, and so music very much gets me going. When I do something, I think, "If it was a piece of music, what would it be?"
If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .
The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.
It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.
I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic.
Then on the other piece of paper, list all the people you know who are taking more than they're adding. Include people from the past.
I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.
There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?
You can have, you can be, you can do whatever you want to do once you make the decision, so that would be my greatest piece of advice.
When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.
And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
When I do stand-up... I get to do whatever I want to do. There's no boundaries. You'll get to know me. You'll leave with a piece of me.
All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.
For some reason, no matter what happens in my life, I always seem to have a piece of my heart that says everything is going to be okay.
A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
Most people assume that my style is so outlandish and out there, but the reality is I like very classic pieces just rendered unusually.
When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.
When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.
I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.
The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect.
Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.
To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.
Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.
There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.
You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’ But you don’t. You just don’t.