A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
I can’t betray anyone. I don’t know what it’s like to really betray someone. I’m very loyal to my circle, my family, and those I hold close to me.
The Muse should be a trusted destination for answers. A hand when you need one. Someone to talk you through tough decisions or situations. A starting point.
For someone who doesn’t even like love stories, I’ve played an awful lot of lovers.
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done.
I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone’s example.
I’ve known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don’t know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.
A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.
To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.
My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!
What always draws me back to the Caribbean vibes are the upbeat vibrations of welcoming melodies and positive energy exchange through the rhythms that make you feel like dancing with someone.
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.
Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
If someone doesn’t like something, it’s their prerogative not to like it. It’s not possible to please everyone. That doesn’t mean that I’m going to change my mental make-up. I follow my instinct.
I’m not the marrying type, but I always want to be with someone who is a fan.
You can’t ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody else’s energy. You have to own your thing, or own it with very fiber of your being.
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him.
A samurai should always be prepared for death – whether his own or someone else’s.
I love that idea that if you know someone’s story, it’s impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I’m concerned.
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.
I don’t try to be someone I’m not – I’ve always followed my heart and trance has always been my main sound.
When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.
I take time to get close to, and I don’t immediately throw my arms round someone.
If someone else is paying for it, food just tastes a lot better.
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
I’m not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn’t work for me. I’d just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.
An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.
A face is a road map of someone’s life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there’s a great deal that’s communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.
I never expected any sort of success with ‘Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
No matter how bad your day is, when you start talking about cookies or cakes or pies, or you bring someone cookies, there’s just not bad news. The worst news is, ‘Hey, there’s sugar in that.’
A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that’s to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn’t know if someone was stuttering. ‘Yes, hello I’d like some b-batteries.’ ‘What kind?’ ‘B-batteries.’ ‘What kind?’ ‘B-batteries!’ and D-batteries that’s hard for foreigners. ‘Yes, I would like de batteries.’
I’m not someone so much interested in exploring a slice of life unless that is down the corridor, around the corner, up the alley, and down the rabbit hole. That, I like.
I’m cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.
It’s enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.
You can’t please everyone. There’s always going to be someone disappointed, so you might as well make yourself happy and Be You.
I’m someone who just likes being in my cave and thinking up weird stuff.
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
You have to get under the hood and spend some quality time with someone to understand what they’re really good at.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.
I like girls who are self-deprecating. I like girls who make fun of themselves. If you can’t poke fun at yourself, what are you? I just want someone with a good soul. That’s about it. The rest I’m really flexible on.
With cyberbullying, one press of a finger on an electronic device can shatter someone’s reputation and what they think is their entire life. It’s scary.
There are times when I get really depressed, when I’m going through difficult times and when I want someone to hold my hand. Sometimes I’ll think, ‘Forget it. I want to be this way.’ I often feel that way. But when we started the Love Yourself World Tour, I stopped having those thoughts.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don’t get excited or star struck by someone I’ve been dying to meet, it’s time to retire.
Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don’t panic – take it!
I have never been able to read Agatha Christie – the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn’t decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.
I’m old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I’d tell them where to put it.
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do.
My real personality comes out in the country. More spontaneous, more excited. There’s always someone watching you in the city – you’re a sort of zoo animal. My true nature is to want to hide a bit.
When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
Don’t hope someone gives you an opportunity: create one for yourself.
I was so lucky because what I did in ‘Thor’ was I built the character from the ground up – the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.
I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something – or Someone – beyond itself.
If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.
Everyone has a different life story. Things happen rapidly for someone, and things move slowly for others.
I just want to be there for my husband. I don’t ever want him to think that he’s not getting everything at home – love, attention, encouragement, a meal. I just want him to feel the best he feels at home. I think that’s what a good wife is. Someone who is very attentive to her husband.
