I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.
Connery made Bond real through his physicality. He did most of his own stunts and fights, and the audience knew it was him.
The state security bodies should not be seen as an institution that works against society and the state; one needs to understand what makes them work against their own people.
I don't know who I can compare my style to because I listen to everybody from old to new. If I hear stuff that I like, I'll definitely gravitate to it and spin it in my own way. I'm a mixture of a lot of people, honestly, but I'm myself.
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.
We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.
My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.
Having my own show - it's not something that I think of. It's not.
Colorado is a state that people like to be themselves and solve their own problems.
The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community.
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel.
For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.
The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.
I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.
Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.
There's nothing wrong with being comfortable in your own skin. If anything, it can be really beautiful.
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.
Literature invents its own rules.
My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.
I realize how talented our hair and wardrobe people are every time I have to get dressed on my own.
My parents were always very strict, and they gave me the right beliefs in how to treat people. It was very strict and all about morals - I try to pass that on to my own children.
I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardobe's changed - I've streamlined a little bit and definitely learnt from Joan's sleekiness and tailoring.
Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk.
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own.
The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
