I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it’s like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.
I’ve always felt unsure of exactly what I wanted to do with my life, but I have these rare moments of total clarity where everything is perfectly clear.
I know there are a lot of experts in the media – a bunch of smart guys out there who know exactly what they’re talking about all the time. They don’t know what they’re talking about.
All we do is bring the debate from both sides, and let you as a viewer decide where you want to end up on the issue. That’s very important. That’s exactly what happens in ‘Redemption Inc.’
I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That’s exactly what I’ve done.
A lot of times, when parents overdiscipline their children, especially when they’re queer, their intention isn’t to hurt them. They think they’re saving their children from harm. But they don’t realize that they’re causing harm, that they’re doing to their kids exactly what they’re afraid of the world doing to them.
I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
Let me tell you exactly what we would do on Social Security. Yes, we’d raise the retirement age two years and phase it in over 25 years; that means we’d raise it one month a year for 25 years when we’re all living longer, and living better lives.
There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.
I was one of those people at one point who was scared to put my foot down and show where the boundaries were. For me, it’s really important to stand your ground and know exactly what you are, where you wanna be, and what you’re doing, or else people are gonna try you.
We know how to convey exactly what we want to convey. We know how it makes us feel and we know exactly how to show our fans how to feel the same way.
To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don’t take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that’s exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.
For connecting the government and private sector, while breaking through infamous federal bureaucracy, Ivanka Trump is exactly what Washington needed. She’s making policy changes inside the beltway, prompting an improvement in the lives of individuals across the country.
It’s more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it’s exactly what you want. It’s a great feeling, and there’s nothing like it.
I don’t take any shorts. I don’t say, ‘Okay, it’s good enough.’ I try to get exactly what I’m hearing in my head to the tape, and I won’t let it move until then.
I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited by the act of recording. I love that process so much that I feel like if I knew exactly what I wanted I’d arrive at something too soon.
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
I experienced great professionalism in Dutch football. I don’t want to give a stereotypical view of them, but they are needy in terms of wanting to know exactly what the game plan is, what their role is, that information.
I certainly often go to a movie and don’t remember exactly what the trailer had in it, except that it looked cool.
I don’t think Italian football is a particularly appealing product for anyone that wants to invest unless they are Italians that understand exactly what goes on in our country and the way things are done.
When you’re so young, it’s important to understand exactly what your role is. Not just look good – you have to be efficient and effective.
I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out exactly what is in there, and go home and duplicate it.
I’m a one-nation Conservative and that means exactly what it says on the tin.
I came to New York to study theater and stayed and was doing exactly what I wanted to do. It’s because of that work that some doors eventually opened for me.
I feel like Drake is doing exactly what I plan on doing, just being sick for all of, what, a decade now? And just always being able to switch it up and never stay in one box.
This is exactly what I thought – that I didn’t have enough hair. Peter Jennings. Tom Brokaw. Dan Rather. Beautiful locks, beautiful heads of hair.
If you go to most pawn shops in Las Vegas, they will tell you exactly what they will pay for, say, an iPod. But if you show up with an 1833 ormolu clock, it won’t pop up in their computer. They are going to tell you to go to Gold & Silver Pawn, because we buy weird things.
I certainly don’t feel any more super than any of the other people I knew in my working life… Quite the reverse. In fact, guilt is my middle name, and I think anybody who does do that thing with work and children and everything knows exactly what I’m talking about.
Fire Island Pines is my perfect escape from N.Y.C. on weekends. Beautiful beaches, great restaurants, and fun people – exactly what I need after a crazy New York week.
I’m truly excited to be a part of the Reebok family. What really comes through when working with Reebok team is that they live and breathe fitness. They have an incredible heritage in training and know exactly what it takes to help athletes be as fit as they can be.
As a child, I had been told that I was exactly what a ballerina should be.
My career, I look at it in a Darwinian framework. I’m going to do exactly what I want, and I’m going to survive, or I’m not. I’m not going to pander. I’m not going to change things. I’m not going to do focus groups. I’ll live and die by the sword. I don’t care. Because I couldn’t live with myself.
I always knew that it was going to be an uphill climb to replace Letterman from complete obscurity with no experience, but I think I had to go through it to know exactly what a titanic effort that was going to be.
I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that’s exactly what happened.
I wouldn’t say I’m a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don’t tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.
Joanna is a strong female character, and I love playing her. But one of the things about her is that she always says exactly what she’s thinking.
The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what’s popular.
When people go to the theater, they don’t want to think ‘I know exactly what I’m gonna get,’ and then they get it and then they walk out. I think you want to walk in going ‘I don’t really know what this is about,’ and have the fun of discovering it.
I’ve had my stint at Columbus. My family has been right by my side throughout, and that’s exactly what I wanted. I found my happiness.
Every movie gets exactly what it deserves.
You should be able to wear exactly what you want to wear.
No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you’re doing.
When I’m writing with Tony Iommi, for example, still it’s very easy. We go in, and I know exactly what his style is. It’s very distinctive, and you know exactly what he’s looking for, and we know exactly where we’re going from the first chord.
I will do my best to try to unite the country. To invite people from the south and east to the government. This is exactly what people need – to participate in the government of their country.
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to abjure. That is how human nature is.
On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don’t think I will ever get to the point where I go, ‘I know exactly what I am doing,’ and I don’t think I want to.
It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties – that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.
