Sometimes the thing one wants most is the very thing that will get him killed with an axe.
What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
She said one thing and I said another and the next thing I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation.
It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit.
One of the most important things a man must bear in mind is this very thing - that he owes his fellow a transforming encounter.
It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.
I'm fortunately not, like, typecast. I don't have to just do one kind of thing; I can do all kinds of things that reflect different parts of me.
One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?
There's only one thing worse than a droopy, round, lace-trimmed, too small, too short, mosquito net with holes… the exact same thing in pink.
There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.
One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.
One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know.
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical. How do you not compromise when the whole thing is about compromise?
Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.
I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.
I'm extremely straightforward. And I can't do that sort of traditional girl thing of saying one thing that actually means something else. I never understood it, and I still don't understand it.
I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.
I don't have a development deal, but the one thing I have learned is never say never. I will consider things as they come.
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?
