I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts.
Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world’s past.
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
It was one of the great pleasures of my life to donate the entire sum of the Nobel Prize, in memory of my sister Ruth Blobel, to the restoration of Dresden.
I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro – pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you’re going in your career by the company you keep.
On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there’s an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not – that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.
One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.
I am a big foodie so I enjoy everything including dim sums aand sushi, but pani puri is one thing that really makes my mouth water.
I heard a stat claiming there’s a new millionaire in China every 10 minutes – that means there are more millionaires than there are available cars. That’s why cars that only come up once in a lifetime, like a Jaguar D-Type, will always fetch such big sums.
I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.
We’re living at this funny time, where we’re all urged to express ourselves as unique individuals, but on the other hand, we share a limited set of tools for doing that. It’s easy to feel like nothing more than the sum of your consumer choices.
The money that bin Laden inherited was about 20 million dollars over the course of many years, not the much larger sums some have suggested. In 1994, his family cut him off.
Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.
It’s the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process – which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
Character is that sum total of moments we can’t explain.
I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles’ faces on it. It would be a collector’s item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
Like all of Moore’s work, ‘V for Vendetta’ is considerably less than the sum of its parts.
I don’t know if I’m worth 80m euros, but I don’t worry about the sums.
People have always taken photos of themselves, either with camera timers or by handing their Nikons over to strangers in foreign countries and then paying large sums to get them back.
I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.
If you surrender to the communal vision, sometimes, certainly in our case, you become more than the sum of your parts.
It’s a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is ‘boring.’ The future is going to be boring.
In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.
To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young – 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don’t make nothin’.
We might have been – these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life’s bewailing.
I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can’t fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together – to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination.
Gigantic sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums and protect the public against gangsters and lunatics. Why do we preserve these useless and harmful beings? The abnormal prevent development of the normal.
Non-resident Indians love me and cough up huge sums of money to watch me fight in the ring.
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.
If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.
I go out to dinner occasionally and that’s the sum of my dating life.
Jokes apart, people are constantly asking me, ‘What are you doing for the industry?’ When one makes a blockbuster, you plough back money into the industry. If my film makes 100 crore, I’m not taking the entire sum home! It gets distributed between the exhibitors, distributors, producers and actors.
Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
It’s not that Millennials don’t believe some things are serious. We’ll make ‘It Gets Better’ videos or perform comedy for disaster relief. But sum up our lives in a phrase? The Importance of Never Being Too Earnest.
Some actors go, ‘Bing!’ and suddenly they’re being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.
In carrying out every aspect of our work, CIA officers are guided by a professional ethos that is the sum of our abiding principles, core values, and highest aspirations. These include service, integrity, excellence, courage, teamwork, and stewardship. Sacrifice, too, is an inescapable part of our mission.
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
Was there ever in anyone’s life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’.
I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.
It’s interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of ‘Moonlight,’ and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it’s become a commentary on the black experience in America.
I am trying to be better than anybody who ever laced up a pair of boxing gloves, and I think that pretty much sums up everything.
It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
There are maybe four or five teams who will pay whatever they need to pay to get the player. They are huge sums, but that is the world we now live in – when one of those four or five teams want a player, then they usually get them.
Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.
It’s not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people’s pleasure. It’s an adventure.
Most fledgling and mid-list writers are lucky to be offered a 4-figure sum and are not only expected to deliver copy that needs minimal editing but also take an active part in marketing and publicizing their work.
As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum – my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.
The Lord’s prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
Watching Clayton Kershaw in the very first game of the 2014 season, I realized that he’s not overpowering; he’s deceptive. It’s the sum of his parts that makes the Los Angeles Dodgers ace baseball’s most successful pitcher.
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
