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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

If you say three things in a row that make sense, people will vote for you.

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

I don't look for signs. But when things happen, I say, 'OK, something must be right.' Or 'OK, something must be wrong.'

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

I guess after college, I just got really into food. I also think going on the road doing stand-up makes you more into food. Because when you travel like that, one of the things to do is find really good places to eat.

I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.

Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.

One thing I love about Josh Turner is his faith; that's why I looked up to him so much.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.

I love a bit of drama. That's a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

The funny thing about advertising is that it's not a zero-sum game... Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it's possible for everyone to win, and it's perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

Actually, 3D is really the most normal thing because it's how those of us with two eyes usually see the world. TVs are the unusual things in 2D!

That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

One funny thing is, though, I wear my watch on my right hand and I'm actually right-handed. People always wonder why - I don't know myself, I've just always done it that way and I like it the way a good watch fits on my right wrist.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.

I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated.

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.

When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

I'm not really a partier, in general. I've definitely learned that that's probably the least interesting thing you can do with your time.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining.

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

My private life is the most precious thing to me.

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.