The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.

Every time I get a script it’s a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It’s like falling in love. You...

Oh, Michael Jackson is Michael Jackson. And no matter if he sold 40 million records off of one record and sold 15 off his last or whatever the counts may be, Michael Jackson will be...

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn’t matter what the genre; nowadays, it’s so much harder than it ever was.

When we’re dealing with the people in our family – no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance,...

No matter what’s happening in the Middle East – the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment – the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you’re playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

What I say or do here won’t matter much, nor should it.

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real...

For me, it doesn’t matter how difficult something is, it doesn’t matter how impressive it is, it’s what sounds best that really counts.

Physical qualities don’t really matter much.

Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph.

When you’re dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn’t, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it’s human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

Matter is stranger than physics textbooks.

People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we’ll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere – WiFi and WiMax in particular.

You know, I am mainstream America, and it really doesn’t matter what party you’re in. When you call your children and you say ‘How are you?’ – and what you are really asking is, ‘Do...

I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people.

You can’t hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she’s still on TV.

It’s always good to bat at the top, where you get more opportunities, but sometimes crucial 30s and 40s can be very helpful for the team. Ultimately it is a team sport. Personal records don’t...

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring...

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the ‘Tale of Two Cities’ by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

It’s so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that there are no props or costumes or furniture, so the performers can be...

I say ‘no’ to nothing, ‘yes’ to moderation. That’s how I approach everything. No matter if it’s candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you’re satisfied with that one bite. I say...

Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it’s waste.

If nothing else, there’s comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

No matter how much money I made from writing, I’d keep the bookstore job.

It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind...

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a...

I don’t mind being ridiculed – well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes – it’s all very ephemeral; it doesn’t really matter what people think of...

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

The universe isn’t a matter of matter, but time.

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you’re playing.

A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.

As far as ‘Birdsong’ is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of the matter is that adaptations of long, ambitious books very seldom transfer well...

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds,...

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of...

There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how...

Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each other out if they come in contact.Keeping antimatter isolated from matter is a challenge, of course, because everything on earth...

My preference is for good writing. It doesn’t matter if it’s for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I’ve had problems with writers, it doesn’t matter how great of an...

When trees fall on trees, the topmost tree must first be removed before others. Don’t be too concerned about the problems of the past. What matters most is the challenge at hand now!

The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn’t matter what body it came out of. I’ve never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

It doesn’t matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie’s not entertaining, if the story’s not entertaining.

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to have on a Browning or a Tennyson. Indeed it...

A lot of Christians look at Hollywood as the ultimate evil. But what it did for me is it sharpened my ability to love people and appreciate people, no matter where they’re at in their...

If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation’s capital just as well.