When you play against different people from all walks of life you can’t do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.
I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories.
I regularly see leaders change what they say because they get bored of saying the same thing over and over again. It’s not that they vary a few words or change examples, but they change the message.
Being schooled is the same thing as learning, and you can never be too old to have your coattail pulled when you’re wrong about something.
When I was first approached for ‘Pass the Plate,’ I was thrilled because I love to cook. And I love to cook healthy. The reason I started cooking was because I would go to restaurants and have just amazing food but feel so heavy and gross. I would go home and try to cook the same thing, but a healthy version.
The Sixties – I had to have my foot in everything then. I’m doing the same thing now but through an intermediary. You know. The food company. Maybe that’s the way to go about it. You go right straight into the inferno, and when you get older, you pull back.
I’ve got fans and letters from Israel, France Germany, Sweden, London, Africa. They all saying pretty much the same thing, ‘Yo, we love you, we need you, put some more music out, please!’
And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.
You don’t attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It’s the same thing with psychotherapy.
Unless you’re involved with thinking about what you’re doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.
There is something transformative if you’re a black person cheering in a theater and turn to see a white person cheering for the same thing you are.
I feel like an expressionist nihilist deep in my heart. And I think nihilism can stop the wheel from going around, around, around, around, around – saying the same thing, reacting the same way.
Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.
I make a lot of my own clothes. I don’t like wearing the same thing everybody else wears.
I think it’s not really difficult to write about love. We’ve been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say ‘I love you’ in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.
You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, ‘Don’t go in that door!’ because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.
My only claim is that not all talented people should go to college and not all talented people should do the exact same thing.
I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.
I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we’re all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.
Just trying to go out there and do the same thing I do every time, take it one pitch at a time and give us the best chance to win.
When I put out ‘Same Thing In Reverse,’ I was told categorically that this will never get played in America.
Sometimes when you’re praised about something, sometimes it’s deserved, and sometimes it’s not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it’s not deserved.
The kids look at me, ‘Ah, you’re my hero.’ I want to teach those kids. ‘Hey listen, God is my hero. He died on the cross for my sins, and He’s the one. That’s how I wanna live – like Him – and I want you guys to do the same thing.
I don’t do anything on stage that allows me to become a trained seal, where you’re just doing the same thing over and over.
One of the things about Fleetwood Mac, you gotta say, is that it’s not very often that you get everyone to want the same thing at the same time.
I’ve heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn’t even want to do it any more because he’d already had all of the fun of working it out. It’s the same thing with these Frank comics.
I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we’re all doing slightly different versions of the same thing.
You don’t break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That’s like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.
I’m basically a creature of habit – I do practically the same thing every week, every day of every week: I go to the office, I meet people, I write, I read, and, of course, I give lectures.
I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.
Monopolists always defend their monopolies by arguing that competition is wasteful. When the railroad barons completed their monopoly, they argued it would be wasteful to have competing rail lines, AT&T said the same thing. But today, the size and scope of these monopolies is different.
Have you ever heard of Irish, Poles, Germans, Italians and Jews being integrated? They go anywhere and just enjoy their rights. Why call it integration when black folks do the same thing? It’s a con job.
I sometimes buy albums that I don’t like now, but that I know I will like. Coming out was the same thing. In high school, I thought, ‘I know I’m going to have to deal with this, but I’m not confident enough now.’ But when I finally did, my whole life changed.
If you do the same thing over and over again, then you will definitely get stale and jaded like most actors do.
At school, I’d be the dude singing to the girls, always up in the auditorium, in the lunch room singing Christmas carols, in the halls between class. I was always singing, and same thing with my grandfather. The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree; you know how that goes.
Every business has to figure out how to make itself more efficient. They’ve got to use technology. They’ve got to use the Internet, things like that. We can do the same thing with our state colleges.
I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.
There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
I like to work out. I like a routine. I’m kind of simple. I eat almost the same thing every day. I like Caesar salad.
Inevitably, considerations of God in what otherwise intend to be mass entertainments come down to the same thing they come down to in any context, which is a consideration of humanity.
I don’t know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it’s different, it’s new.
Views online is a real weird and sticky subject. One view on a 30-second piece of content is not equivalent to one view on a 30 minute video. In my mind it’s not quite the same thing.
My mom was a shopaholic. She can literally never wear the same thing twice. That’s fine with me.
It’s cool when frat boys say, ‘Yeah, ‘Hedwig!’ I’d like to see that same thing happen with ‘Shortbus.’
Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I’d be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn’t like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.
When you’re watching a movie and find yourself getting emotional, it’s because you’re bringing something personal to the images. It’s the same thing with acting. You’re bringing the essence of your core emotional being to that moment.
The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer – which is not necessarily the same thing.
We’re all trying to live up to our personal codes, so we relate to people who we see doing the same thing.
I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion – I couldn’t do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.
If the Marines today are doing exactly the same thing their dads did in Vietnam and their granddads did in Korea and World War II, then how in the hell can we say that they’re not as good?
Blake Lively is my style icon, and she always has rocking clothes and shoes. She keeps it really simple with hair and makeup, and I try to do the same thing. Onstage, I do a little smokier, a little more contouring, but I still always want to be an approachable and real artist, so I never try to go overboard.
