You can escape competition through authenticity, when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you. That would have been useless advice pre-internet. Post-internet, you can turn that into a career.

I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don’t feel any shame over it. It’s only the opinion-makers and the ‘opinion elites’ who turn up their noses.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Republicans are the party of ‘no,’ and Democrats are the party of ‘don’t know’ because it hasn’t fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.

Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.

I’m not going to turn down an Oscar, but I’m not strategizing for one.

The shape of your dreams will not hold if you believe that disbelief is the mending glue. You will only turn back to see the pieces of your dreams if you have the impossibility mindset.

Real faith is when you believe in something that you can’t see. When things are going really bad and you can still get up and say I believe that they’re gonna get better, that there’s...

By the end of it, you never know how it’s going to turn out. Hopefully if I pick the right songs and put the right melodies on it and all the collaboration works out. it’s...

When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don’t want to get a bad review.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a...

Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It’s about building a...

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen...

Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.

My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It’s like an ideal of racial purity.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

I’m kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.

I can turn around and scream and get angry, but I turn around and I forget about it.

I always take a story that’s kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar with, and try to turn it into a story.

Don’t stretch your neck to see who is not doing it; you can do it better! Don’t turn to watch whoever is watching you; everybody is busily watching over his own actions at hand! Go,...

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y’know, aware of. That is...

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses...

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn’t help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and...

Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.

To turn our hearts to our fathers is to search out the names of our deceased ancestors and to perform the saving ordinances in the temple for them. This will forge a continuous chain between...

Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what’s going on, the movie should work.

My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

I drive a Prius. I always turn my faucets off. I never use plastic bottles anymore. I use glass bottles. I bring my own bags to the grocery store. And I try to use all...

Your smile can heal thousands; but your anger can kill millions. Your “hand-shake” can encourage tens of people while your “finger-pointing” can turn ten thousands away from you!

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.

Oh yes, things get me mad. But the thing is, I get mad, and then I turn around and I forget.

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.

If you’re not doing what you want to do. However, you still think about it every day. This means you have not given up. Only you know what action will make it happen and thought...

It’s totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection – on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets...

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting – the kitchen and all...

A hallowed frequency withinThat, even in your darkest hour,You can always turn to.

Get a really good coat that will last a couple of years and that you can’t wait to put on when the weather starts to turn.

Classical scores go up and down; they’re kind of hysterical in a way. And movie scores are much more – they just drive and move forward, and they build and can’t go up and down...

I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I’d have to do is just turn the camera on and off.

‘Heel Turn 2’ is about a person who’s in a match, and he’s playing as though the match were real. But it is real! If you’re standing in the middle of a ring, and you’re...

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

Having fewer unhealthy days and, in turn, more days when you have the energy to get things done is probably the global constant through which businesses and individuals can think about the quantifiable upside of...

Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we’re going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.