Facebook lets me be lazy the way a man in a stereotypical 1950s office can be lazy. Facebook is the digital equivalent of my secretary, or perhaps my wife, yelling at me not to forget to wish someone a happy birthday or to inform me I have a social engagement this evening.
The pitcher has the ball, and nothing happens until he lets go of it. So as the batter, I felt I had to fight for any bit of control I could get. I expected the umpire, the catcher, and the pitcher to wait on me. I wanted to get ready on my time.
Comedians still make fun of Bill’s out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.
It doesn’t matter if it’s platinum or 10-times platinum – it’s a certification that lets me know that I’m not wasting my time in the studio. That being said, I don’t let those certifications run my life.
At a European auto show, I had someone from a German car company come up to me and say the Karma should cost $125,000, not $87,900, but our development process lets us lower the costs. I guarantee it’s profitable.
I love it when a photographer lets me create my own movement and feeling to the images. By that I mean he doesn’t restrict me in his or her own ideas but rather gives me a direction and lets me work within those boundaries freely.
I’m trying to think, like, ‘Wow, I know one day, my kids are not going to live with me. They’re gonna be like, ‘Oh my god, Mom, leave me alone!’ So I try to be grateful for all the little things. Perspective really lets me slow down.
It’s really important to have your escape away from cricket, whatever that is for the individual. I enjoy my time away from the game, that really refreshes me and lets me get excited for when I do go back in and play.
I think it’s in my mind, and it’s driven me my entire life, and it is to offer customers tasteful clothes at good value, meaning it lets the world – or more of the world – afford to dress well.
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.
One of the best games to play with a significant other is Nintendo’s ‘Super Mario Maker,’ for the Wii U, which lets you build and play your own Mario courses.
In France we have a law which doesn’t allow the press to publish a photo that you didn’t approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.
I always have a notebook with me, I eavesdrop; I write down what people say. It’s very rare that one of those things will provoke a story, but I think that that kind of paying attention all the time, and keeping everything open, lets the stories come in. But where they come from is still a mystery to me.
I’m a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don’t like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That’s what I want it to accomplish.
A masterpiece doesn’t push you around. It lets you make up your own mind about what it means – and change it as often as you like.
Stath Lets Flats’ at its heart is a character comedy show about a family-run estate agents, but it’s inspired by a real family!
I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the time, so being an actor lets me live out the fantasy of living out 100,000 different lifetimes in one, without all of the repercussions.
I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons.
It means that Tao doesn’t force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
I have a good shopping relationship with my mum. She lets me buy, and she spectates. I take advice from her, and I give it, too.
When I can buy strikes with that curveball, that just lets everything else play up.
Pressure lets you know what kind of person you are.
I think, over the years, the way my daughters’ friends have embraced me has definitely made my daughters appreciate me more. Of course they take me for granted because I’m the one who’s there, but listen, I don’t want to be ‘the cool mom’ who lets things get out of control.That’s not my lookout.
The Queen has stayed with me in the sense that she lets people come to her. She doesn’t feel like she has to go out. I mean, she doesn’t have to anyway because of her rank and her position, but she doesn’t have to overdo it.
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death – it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
The way Apatow works, you do it scripted a couple times, and then he just kind of lets you go and improvise.
You make a great investment in the consumer Internet, maybe you make a lot of money and create something useful, interesting, or fun. But in life sciences, you have a chance to be part of something that lets people live longer and healthier and not lose the people they care about. That is really profound.
I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares – like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.
Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
In addition to making Android available for free, Google also lets phone makers change the code and customize it so that an Android phone made by, say, Samsung has a different user interface than an Android phone from Motorola.
Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly.
The Internet really lets people connect that wouldn’t have in the past, and lets conversations happen and connections happen.
There’s an unseen force which lets birds know when you’ve just washed your car.
A painting lets us know how somebody literally saw things. A piece of music is another language that transmits a whole wealth of emotion and wordless experience. But writing is special in the way at allows us to temporarily enter another person’s world, to step outside the boundaries of our own time and space.
My wife is so funny and talented and never lets anybody fail next to her.
I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can’t write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we’ve come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we’d know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad.
I would say Triple H is the biggest influence on my career. He’s almost like a father figure. If I slip up, or there’s a problem, he lets me know.
Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it’s going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it’s going to get larger and larger, and it’s going to keep coming up.
My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I’ve been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I’m terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.
While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.
In the entire history of the human species, every tool we’ve invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.
Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow.
I guess that’s one of the benefits of being sick. Your wife lets you have a big-screen TV in the living room.
I want someone who is easy going and chilled out, most importantly someone who makes me laugh. Someone who lets me be me, so I can just be myself. Mr Right has got to have those qualities.
The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.
You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.
Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don’t know what happens up there in the mountains when you’re growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time – 50 years I’d say.
As all professional athletes know, Father Time is undefeated, and when I wake up in the morning, my back especially lets me know that it’s about time to bow out gracefully, let the young guys in and move to being a full time fan of the sport.
