When I was growing up, ‘Butch and Sundance’ was my absolute favorite film.
If citizens and those in the communities where Islamic terror festers are willing to take the risk of engaging and reporting suspicions, authorities have an absolute obligation to take their concerns seriously.
Ginger Baker was never my favorite, but he was part of the group Cream that opened the door to what we did. They were the first band to really get into improvisation. They were an absolute necessity to what came later.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
Although I’ve made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house.
I have never been in an ongoing series before and after series two I realized the writer has absolute control of your life.
We’ve all experienced those days when we feel like an absolute failure. It’s a normal feeling when things don’t go as exactly planned. And, when we feel like that, it’s challenging to think of yourself as a successful individual.
‘Humans of New York’ is basically somebody walking up to absolute strangers on the street every day and, within minutes, talking with them about very personal things. Some things they haven’t even told their best friends or family members.
I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
The United States emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented absolute and relative power. It was truly first among unequals.
Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you’ll do is fall down and worship it.
I think funny is just the foundation. I don’t really think, to some extent, funny is the absolute most important thing. It should also communicate some idea through the medium of cartooning. Just to be funny is… You know what, the things that you laugh hardest at aren’t cartoons.
I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years.
And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you’ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.
In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.
I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.
The only way to describe my involvement in ‘Planes’ is that it’s an absolute dream come true for me. Getting to be a bad guy in any project is fun, let alone being a Disney villain. I can’t imagine anything getting better than that!
But, in each case, as a filmmaker who’s been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.
I’m all about scary movies! The ‘Halloweentown’ ones are my absolute favorites.
These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.
Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.
Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we’re all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.
I love ‘Call the Midwife’; it’s an absolute gem of a programme. Filming the Christmas special and then the second series felt like going back to a boarding school that you really love and is full of friends.
I’m an absolute clean freak. I’ll go to my friends’ houses and even start cleaning. I’m such a granny at heart. My couch is my best friend.
I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn’t go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
New York was a fantastic place to disappear because no one cares who you are. No one bothers you. In my ten years living there I was never once asked for an autograph or stopped on the street. It was an absolute joy. I gave myself time and space to get to know myself more.
I’ve been looking for my absolute favorite beauty product for a long time because my skin becomes dry and oily relatively fast. I haven’t found the right one, but I’m not giving up!
We’ve got to know the Word of God. That is our absolute stability. That is our offensive weapon against the kingdom of darkness.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it’s not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa.
It’s an absolute honour and privilege to get out there and be an Australian headlining an Australian card. That’s unreal; it really is.
Japanese society doesn’t have a god – no absolute presence.
I’m not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I’m recognized – that would be absolute misery.
The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it’s the reverse.
I love strong encryption. It protects us in so many ways from bad people. But it takes us to a place – absolute privacy – that we have not been to before.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
There is no world of absolute, complete privacy or a world of complete national security.
Yeah, I think it’s an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.
Stephen’s belief was that if you were free to do your absolute best work, you would be rewarded. My belief was that if you gave all of yourself to what you believed was right, then that would be enough.
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
