I had to organize things. So I created the ‘Black Mamba’. So Kobe has to deal with these issues, all the personal challenges. The Black Mamba steps on the court and does what he does....

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud, too. That’s part of it.

I have to be entertained by what I’m writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with...

Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled ‘unclassified’ or ‘limited official use’ and deal with mundane matters.

I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That’s always been my competitive advantage.

Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.

We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated...

Do not rush to judge someone unless his/her fruits reveal the truth. However, don’t forget; mostly, it’s not the fault of the tree to produce bitter fruits. Sometimes, the soil determines that; blame the source!...

What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.

I’ve had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I’ve talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who’ve written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing....

As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it’s obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all...

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it’s expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know....

We all live under some repression; we have to, it’s part of the deal.

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.

I don’t deal in pretentious kids’ parties.

Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.

No matter where you go, there’s always something to deal with; if it’s not greed, it’s lust, or envy, or pride, or something else. You just have to live your life so uncorrupted that it...

We’re professionals. People make deals, they need to stick to them. That’s the way it works, if it’s going to work at all.

I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.

I heard Tony Bennett say that when you’re a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it’s very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I’ve never been married, I’m single.

It’s only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity.

I think some people think I’m, like, anti-label, and I’m not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I’m anti being shot out of a rocket when you’re not ready...

OK, how about Ralph Isaac Papov?

The thing with ‘Mortal Kombat’ is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something...

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

I’ve got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I’m forgiven for it?

I love getting after that quarterback! That’s my deal: sacking the quarterback.

I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.

Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don’t really know how it works.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found...

I’ve done made a deal with the devil. He said he’s going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won’t put all the fires out.

Failure people deal with life’s disappointment whereas the real people ride on disappointment to take the best lesson out of it to understand the character of persons they had in their network then. Dealing is...

Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I...

I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.

I’m really fortunate because, in my career, I haven’t had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I’m not.

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet – I haven’t written about that. And I wouldn’t want to deal with what’s happening in Oregon – the school shootings.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

You may have been too quick to admit the difficulty of a specific task. The question is “how many times have you tried dealing with it”? Don’t say it’s difficult if you haven’t tried it!

He not only stood three inches taller than me, but I sold him two of those three inches. (The third inch I tossed in for free.)

I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.

I don’t think God cares if I wear nail polish or not. I don’t think that’s a deal breaker for him.

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that’s what separates the legends from the regular artists. It’s all in how you manage that success, and how...

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we’re intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we’re blindly accepting… or blindly resistant.

There’s a specificity of language that’s required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with – a specificity of language that is somehow not as clear in a lot of American schools.

I’m at my best when I’m working. I just recently learned how to find balance and deal with downtime and take advantage of it.

New York came after me aggressively and that’s what sealed the deal.

Things like the financial markets – a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts… it can help deal with modern life, which...