Usually when there are a lot of layoffs, like in 2008 and 2009, business creation tends to spike. But that didn't happen right away, partly because people trying to start a business couldn't get credit.
It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.
Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.
People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.
Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.
If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.'
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.
Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.
I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.
In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.
One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating , among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us.
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.
Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.
The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. It hurts sometimes, but it's good. I'm little extreme in that sense - the middle ground is not my forte.
