I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
There's nothing I want less than a piece of cheese or a burger. I have nightmares I'm being force-fed these things. I have no interest in converting anyone. It's purely how I want to live my life. I don't judge anyone.
As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
I think leather pants are just better than jeans onstage; they give the performance a nice attitude, and they are also shockingly comfortable. Comfort is key.
There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That's the beautiful thing, man, we're actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever.
Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.
In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems.
When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax.
If I'm reading a script, and I'm not buying it, I need to be able to relate to the character on some level, and they need to have more than one dimension. I need to have an idea of what this guy's thinking about when he's taking a shower not on camera. And if I can't picture him taking a shower and getting dressed, then he's not a real person.
Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.
My job as a surgeon is not just to fix a joint, but to give my patients the encouragement and tools they need to speed up their recovery and leave my clinic better than they have been in years.
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.
If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.
Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.
Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.
One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!
It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I don't believe that Mother Theresa and Hitler go to the same place.
The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
I was more than just a moody artist.
My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained.
I'm probably a lot more closer in the 1500m to the world record than I am in the 5000m.
