It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.
I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.
There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
HBO is not an advertiser-based model, it's a subscription model. So what's significant to HBO is not necessarily the debut of an episode, it's the cumulative numbers.
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been.
My career is based primarily upon finding a balance with a director and their vision, and that means sublimating my own personal ego toward their material.
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!
It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.
We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.
Neither apology nor kindness can demolish the wall of hatred when built, by choice, on a base of self-centeredness & from the bricks of ego!
Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
The God I believe in believes in me and won’t silence my heart or others based on a paycheck at the end of the day.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.
I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.
People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.
