People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.
You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy.
I can still remember the first time I heard Tori Amos. It was the fall of 1993, and I was in the back of a colossal '79 Lincoln Coupe Mark V, embarking on some otherwise forgettable road trip somewhere in the Deep South.
I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.
It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.
Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.
But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.
I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.
I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
Overwhelmingly, Israel's political and military establishment want the rest of the world to act diplomatically or otherwise to stop Iran. But if that doesn't happen, then the impulse toward the use of force will become quite strong.
I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances.
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
A woman doesn't have to direct a woman's film and a man doesn't have to direct a man's film; otherwise, where would we be?
A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.
I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.
On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.
I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.
