Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you’ll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.
I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.
Dance music is an emotional journey. It’s how well you can make people feel something that they haven’t felt.
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
We’ve got to map all of our ancient history before it’s gone because, let’s face it, if we don’t have a common heritage to share, something to get excited about, then what are we living for?
My Indigenous heritage is something I hold close to my heart.
When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
You can’t do something forever.
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
Good guy’ or ‘bad guy’, hero or anti hero; doesn’t matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth – look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
You can’t make someone learn something – you really can’t teach someone something – they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
Sometimes a crazy idea can make something special.
I am very excited about the prospect of using cryptocurrency, not just as a money equivalent, but using it as a way to earn something as a result of doing some type of work.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
When something happens – good, bad or ugly – you find a way to be able to do your part for your community. How do you better the lives of Indigenous people, how do you give back to the land, how do you stay connected? All of this is the same question.
There’s something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
You paint something, and it’s yours. It’s your heart up on the wall.
We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just… do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It’s all going to work out.
I’ve been misunderstood when it comes to women. I’ve got a big heart and a little brain. But I love women being women; there’s something about their skin. I do love strong, independent women, but they are definitely complicated.
Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
You can’t satisfy everybody. If you do, you’re probably doing something wrong.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead – but aim to do something big.
If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
Sometimes I sit down and I think ‘Do I regret this? Do I regret that?’ And I feel like everything makes this snowball effect, you know? If you regret something, it’s good because it just means that it’s something that’s affected you enough for you to stop and think… There’s a reason that everything happens.
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.
If I don’t learn something every single day, it’s a wasted day.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.
Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something.
My legacy is that I stayed on course… from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There’s something greater than the result, more lasting – a legacy.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
To be painted a villain, you have to do something, I guess, evil or something heinous, and I don’t know if I fit that description.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
That’s the only thing I don’t like – people always got something to say about my life. I don’t know nothing about their life. People just judge you when they don’t even know you.
With the right vibes and the right people, it’s easy to create something magical.
Something is better than nothing. Doin’ anything for a man, there’s investments involved, there’s time and production. It’s better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Life is about perspective and how you look at something… ultimately, you have to zoom out.
Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits – we’re all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn’t matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
You need to realise that you must have something to aim for, something to drive you.
One of the things I was taught in law school is that I’d never be able to think the same again – that being a lawyer is something that’s part of who I am as an individual now.
