Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.
The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish.
I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres.
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.
I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things. I don't like superhero things, I like real-people things.
I let the song come to me. Then that thing comes to you, and you just know what that thing is. Music isn't like a 9-to-5 job. You never know. It's just the most unpredictable thing.
When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Note on Riggan's dressing room mirror: A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.
I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.
The only thing more important than your to-do list is your to-be list. The only thing more important than your to-be list is to be. ~
The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you're gone. Build your hopes on things eternal !
I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
