When I realized that I can invest in my own marketing and do exactly what I think needs to be done – well, then it just feels like, what is the benefit of having a publisher?
A lot of my friends say, ‘Did you even put on makeup?’ and that’s exactly what I want.
I’m old fashioned. I’m not one of these young guys who think they are so smart that they can prescribe what humanity ought to do. Humanity never learns any lessons. Prescriptions don’t matter. We already know exactly what to do. We just don’t do it.
The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we’re trying to get the gun industry across the country to do.
What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I’m a numbers guy, that’s my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I’m in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That’s exactly what I should be doing.
I will make no apologies, ever, for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer, and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way. As president, that is exactly what I’ll do.
I know exactly what I’m doing when I’m doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail.
I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.
Rather than diminishing the idea of ‘truly needing’ a relationship – and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it – why not just celebrate it? It’s exactly what the world needs.
I don’t pretend to be Joy Division or New Order. What I do is very straight forward: it’s an interpretation and a celebration of the music, with different people. Everyone looks at it and knows exactly what I’m doing.
In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
Facebook seems to think that it would be liberating if everyone’s News Feed could be personalized so that people see only and exactly what they want. Don’t believe it. That’s a prison.
I understand exactly what I am.
But at a certain point, and I don’t really know… people have asked me this. I don’t know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.
It’s just that fun atmosphere, working on the car, being with the guys. This is exactly what I needed.
From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.
Trust me, you can’t change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It’s impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.
I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that’s exactly what I want.
I don’t like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I’m going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I’m afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it’s what makes great actors – being in the moment.
The idea of a young girl who knows exactly what she wants with her life is the most threatening and unappealing thing you can imagine.
Chipotle is based on a very simple idea: We start with great ingredients, prepare them using classic cooking techniques, and serve them in a way that allows people to get exactly what they want.
It’s a form of mental and verbal gymnastics, and one of the things that appeals to me most about commenting on darts is that no one knows exactly what I’m going to come out with next – and neither do I.
The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there’s an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.
If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.
I think it’s nice when you come into the room and the director has a plan, a vision of exactly what he or she wants the piece to be. Because when that happens, then you feel safe. You feel safe to make choices and to do something big and just fly because there’s a structure around you.
A chap was digging a pond for his carp in the garden behind his terraced house in the small town of Raunds, when he unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon body. Because he’d seen ‘Time Team’, he knew exactly what to do with it – he cleaned it very respectfully and then called the local archaeologist, who called us in.
If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It’s like a mural.
The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
The best thing about YouTube is that anyone can do it, and that’s exactly what I did.
I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about… being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I’d like to do more well-written indies. I don’t know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it’s somewhere within that realm.
It’s really been enlightening for me to work with composers because I used to think that everything in the music was exactly what the composer meant. Well, it’s what the composer meant in that moment when they wrote it.
I write exactly what I think. If it’s a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words.
That’s always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you’re attempting to do.
I feel like people have been so used to listening to choirs during Christmas, so they love voices when it comes to Christmas, and that is exactly what we are.
In theater, you really work out the kinks and figure out exactly what you want to do and what we want to say, so by the time we have an audience, we’re really prepared. With TV, you have a day… Sometimes, just a few hours.
Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down’s Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.
I want to do exactly what I want to do. I’d rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.
I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can’t get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.
After my first year, I knew exactly what I wanted to do, what I wanted to get better at, and how I was going to do it.
It just so happened that I had this place called YouTube where everybody in the world could do exactly what they wanted to do and it’s potentially one of the most exciting times I’ve discovered in the history of anything ever.
The thing where I’ve always been lucky is, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.
When I was 11, I developed a new symptom – the worst one yet: I had to touch people before I talked to them. When I say ‘had to,’ that’s exactly what I mean: if I didn’t touch them first, I literally couldn’t form the words.
For me, when I choose a script, I put my heart and soul into it, and that is exactly what I look for in a film. A good film is a good film. And if it’s a bad film, irrespective of whether it’s made 300 crores or 200 crores or any amount of money, it doesn’t matter to me.
When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they’re talking about, because that is me.
It’s a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.
I love it when you hear a band, and you just go, ‘Yes! I never knew it, but that’s exactly what I want to hear.’
If you’re offered something, you’re not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it’s a little scary, I feel.
My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I’ll do that. I will be free.
There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.
Working with Tim Burton is like a psychic experience -Tim waves his hands and says, ‘I don’t know,’ and you go home and do it. He’s the most articulate nonverbal person in the world. He doesn’t say a word, and you know exactly what it means.
I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.
I support the Volcker rule, but there needs to be proper definitions around the Volcker rule so that banks can understand exactly what they can do and what they can’t do, and that they can provide the necessary function of liquidity in customer markets.
