I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

In the surfing days, that was all there was for me. Sailing, starting around ’68, it was kind of the same deal. I always got really into whatever it was I was doing.

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for.

In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day – no...

It’s life. You deal with it or you don’t.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Sometimes I have to deal with trolls, and I just block them. But most of the time, Twitter’s heaps of fun, actually.

Why spend ten dollars to buy one item that does two things, when for five dollars a piece I can sell you two items that each does one thing?

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

I don’t read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

The Devil went down to Georgia, he was lookin’ for a soul to steal. He was in a bind, ‘cos he was way behind; he was willing to make a deal.

Don’t comply with what everyone says; judge out issues before you deal with them!

A great deal of my mail comes from fans of the ‘Oz’ picture – fans of all ages. The scholarly, the curious, the disbelievers write and ask how? why? when? what for? did you fly?...

I don’t think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.

I sell sex by the coffee cup. I don’t go by small, medium, or large, I go by deep, deeper, and deepest.

We’re in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

Something that’s seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I’m on the side of the bourgeoisie.

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, ‘Shut up and deal.’

Find out your most limiting tasks and deal with them as early as possible. Use a diary, and jot little points of reminder about specific tasks for reference later.

A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.

People can’t stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

I’ve been forced to deal with my character assassination.

It’s a really big deal to do a spacewalk. It’s much riskier than staying indoors. It’s complex. It uses up a lot of the precious resources onboard. It uses up oxygen. It uses up carbon...

Do you feel like your action plans are stronger to than your capability? Just take a moment a draw a plan of how to deal with the difficult task with a single bite at each...

I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.

I think there’s a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper...

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it’s got you.

Anna Wintour doesn’t deal with pictures; she is just doing PR and business, and she scares everybody.

You can’t develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.

This book does not exist. And if that doesn’t deter you from buying it, then I’m also selling frozen alien flesh, a patch of Bigfoot’s fur, and a patch of land on Pluto (limit one...

Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment–discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level.

I’ve had to deal with my tragedies, and how you cope with them is what life’s all about. You can choose to let them consume you or choose not to.

None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel.

There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of...

When you’re doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it’s a very different way of doing business than in London. You can’t sign them in the usual way because they’d end up getting...

And that’s the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with...

Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.

You cannot deal with a city if it’s not socially integrated.

I don’t deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and practical issues that we...

Watching someone you love… die? There are no words for how broken that makes a person. It’s like waking up from a bad dream only to find out that it’s you reality, it’s like watching...

The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.

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.