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Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.

You cannot mock God because whatever good thing you do, you're gonna reap for it.

The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

Giving back is the right thing to do, whether it's donating clothing or even just a smile to someone who needs it.

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.

I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being watercress.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

The worst thing about touring is the travel.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing. Whatever that is, it is what I want to do.

Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. Thats probably one reason I became an actor.

The point of the essay is to change things.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.

My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

When I turned 30, I realised the value of time and with it, the other important things in life. Thats when I did up my house, started spending time with my family and friends and did all that a normal girl would do. All these things I was balancing with my work.

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

The most important thing I do is I'm a dad.

I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

I did some good things as a rookie.

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

People can tell when you're happy with being you and when you're not. It's only cheesy because it's true. As I've gotten older and grown into my body, I've started realizing that the way you carry yourself and that light coming out of your eyes are the most attractive things about you.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. Like it's a collection of your diary entries and you pick which one's gonna make the most sense together and you put out a record and you sort of live it.

One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it's really fun to do.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

My favorite thing about movies is the ending, and so all my favorite movies have really great endings.

Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.

To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

My favorite thing to do is eat and eat well.

The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

The big things I've had are things I bought myself.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.

I love Twitter. My favorite thing to do these days is to tweet things that seem very questionable as to whether I'm joking or not.

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

The thing is, work is the thing I love the most.

It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.

One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldnt trade it for the world.

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

Radio's a scary thing for me. It's dope to be on there.

One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or something like that, and start advertising or selling things. This etiquette rule is an attempt to separate one's social life, which should be pure enjoyment and relaxation, from the pressures of work.

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.

There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.

A job is a very healthy thing to do.

The biggest things in life are not materials.

Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.

I love hidden things. When you buy something with quality, you like the inside to be as beautiful as the outside. Nobody's going to see it, but you know it's there.

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.