I did an ‘Our Town’ in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
Being married to Andy has given me a new appreciation for my body. He’s taught me that it’s not how thin you are that matters. It’s how your body performs, how it endures wear and tear.
People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.
People are looking for a way to tear down anyone who is successful in any arena. That’s the way fans are.
Nothing’s harder than writing. There’s no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There’s tremendous support – you’ve got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it’s all you, and it’s just crippling when people tear up your pages.
The phrase ‘misuse of privilege’ is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It’s becoming a devalued term, and it’s making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions.
My ego would be fed tremendously when I’d go on a set and get in a car and tear it to pieces. I’d get out and everyone on the set would applaud.
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
My hamstrings are permanently into a state of openness. I could probably fall out of bed into a split and not tear anything.
One of the things that I wanted to do in all aspects of my life is to tear down barriers. And, I feel those barriers exist for any racialized person. They particularly exist for people who are very visible, so a visible minority or someone who expresses their faith visibly.
Depression Quest’s’ tone is one of hope. Many players have told me they’ve tried to take steps in their life to get their illness under control. I tear up while reading my e-mail on subways a lot.
We should tell the honest, painful stories of 9/11 because it dishonors the memory of heroes to invent a phony cast of villains when the actual terrorists were terrible enough to tear open this nation’s heart.
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism. From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again.
There’s too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin’ to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there’s a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you’re not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.
If we stand together as Singaporeans, there is not a force in this world that can tear us apart.
Towards the end of my career, I had a lot of wear and tear, a lot of arthritis that was building up. Being 300 pounds for over 15 years was starting to take its toll. I was constantly on all sorts of anti-inflammatories and medicines to deal with the pain.
The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months.
I can close my eyes and start walking through ‘Hamilton’ at any given time, and I’ll tear up because I remember day in and day out, eight shows a week, walking on stage, seeing everybody that I love.
Somehow the government has convinced the American people that using tear gas is perfectly harmless, despite stark evidence to the contrary.
I’ve learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they’re going to tear you down.
If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that’s my reward.
People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You’ve just got to go for it.
If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.
Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I’ve been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.
I hated women before I went to prison. I always felt like women were trying to tear each other down.
You’re using the same body parts over and over again, eventually there will be wear and tear.
I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.
I’m an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.
This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.
History is history, and it has to be told, and with ‘Mudbound,’ it’s beautiful because you get to sit with both sides – the white and the black – and see where we meet each other at the end of the day and see where we tear each other apart.
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to ‘tear down this wall’, a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.
I’m very conscious and weary of the hype economy and the way people build things up just to tear them down.
Even with the bad news, I felt calm. I never shed a tear when I called my wife and said, ‘Amber, my test is positive. I have Ebola.’
Because of my sports background, I know how to overcome wear and tear and how to temporarily fix injuries on the spot.
People don’t even understand that every bit of our food was once alive. We take another creature, plant, animal, microorganism, tear it apart in our mouths. And incorporate those molecules into our own bodies. We are the Earth in the most profound way.
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can’t tear the toilet paper.
