I have a lot of younger fans, obviously the choices I make often influence them. But having said that, it's kind of the best motivation in the world to stay positive and make good choices.
I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
I love a challenge, and I think it's when people least expect you to do something that you often do your best.
Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.
Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree.
Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.
Humans are...extraordinary. It's a shame that we often forget that, and that we treat each other as anything less than the masterpieces we are.
Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.
That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.
Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.
I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be.
I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.
Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.
Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
