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Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it's essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you're going to be an actor.

I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition Impossible.' I like the outdoors and I like doing something fresh for television you haven't seen before.

Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

I dont really like simple characters too much; its too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.

My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar orbit for the very first time. Facing those challenges of radiation, navigation and life support on a months-long trip millions of miles from home would be a perfect learning journey before a Mars trip.

Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses its own expansion over results. In effect, government has become a huge silent partner in all businesses, often taking a majority of the profits and forcing many unprofitable business decisions without the risk that it will be fired.

If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it.

I really like clever men who challenge you.

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.

I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

I only get involved with roles that I find intriguing, in top quality productions regardless of the medium. I try not to focus on the format itself and concentrate instead, on finding roles that challenge and entertain me as an artist.

It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.

Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

I'm excited by challenging myself physically and mentally every day.

When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, youve got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.

Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.

Challenging someone is good. You need to do it. Sometimes they don't even realize you're doing it, like when you joke with a goalie, 'What's wrong today? You losing it?

I need some challenges in love or I'm bored.

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.

Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It's funny finding what's challenging about acting as you go.

My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.

There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

It's hard to balance everything. It's always challenging.

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

My restaurant, Tex Wasabi's, we have a whole 'Minute to Win It' challenge going on on Sundays already. The show hasn't even aired and they're already doing challenges where people are coming and participating. I think it's going to take over.

I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.

It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.

It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.

You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

I don't care who you are, life has challenges.

Some men are afraid of women who challenge them and demand respect and answers. That's who I am and will always be.

After the horrific attacks of September 11th, it was evident that our Government needed to be transformed to meet the new challenges of this dangerous world.

I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge the current models.