Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them – there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television...

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

I want to do movies that I’m proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make...

People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it’s like, ‘Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!’ And I know because I’m guilty...

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take...

Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God’s word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

I can’t stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in...

Whether you are Republican or Democrat or liberal or conservative, we should never, never, never allow ourselves emotionally to interfere with another person’s right to express themselves.

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!

Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

Anyone who thinks they’re indispensible is fooling themselves.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it’s quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

The question isn’t, ‘What do we want to know about people?’, It’s, ‘What do people want to tell about themselves?’

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work – or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were...

‘Crash’ was incredibly personal to me. So was ‘In the Valley of Elah.’ There were things in ‘The Next Three Days’ that were questions I was asking myself but couldn’t answer, like how far would...

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under...

A lot of people are afraid to face themselves, especially when something goes wrong. But that’s important, because if something happens within a relationship, it could be how you’re allowing someone else to treat you.

The fundamental goal of Republicans and Democrats is to get themselves re-elected.

People really do spend a lot of money on their pets – sometimes more then themselves.

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they’re willing to make themselves look terrible.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

What I don’t like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who uphold the Constitution and who don’t see themselves as a super legislature.

The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.

To go to the synagogue with one’s father on the Passover eve – is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head...

I’m light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that’s something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it’s weird.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the need to do everything themselves, but I am not one...

I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out...

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF … No other form of fiction has the vocabulary...

My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way – they just don’t want to say it.

It’s nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.

I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves.

I guess it’s hard work… whatever the decision is, how to show it to people that aren’t necessarily dancers, how to get people to think about more than themselves.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.