In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.
You've got to make an effort on your own. Some people don't even try.
I went straight from high school to 'Gossip Girl,' and both were very structured, scheduled environments, so I never had freedom to explore and carve my own path.
Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.
I live in New York City, but I live in Hoboken because it's cheaper there, and I can own a condo.
I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure.
Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.
God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.
My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down.
At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
To each his own, but my process of preparation is based on conditions, not opposition.
For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.
One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.
Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.
Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.
In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39.
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
There is a latent talent in everyone. I am nothing extraordinary just because I happen to be an actor. Everybody is extraordinary in his own way. One must identify one's own talent early on - one is not great merely when he gets recognized by others - and one doesn't become a nobody just because his talent is not widely known.
My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.
Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
My father used to see God in human beings and in his work. Each person has his own way.
We spent too much time attacking Gordon Brown and Labour rather than setting out our own plans. People had decided they wanted change - the thing they were not sure about was the alternative we were offering, so going on and on about Labour missed the point.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
My eyebrows - they have a life of their own. I don't arch them on purpose; I don't do, like, arching exercises or anything, I promise!
In terms of my own experience, my dad is first-generation, so his parents were from China, and my mom was born and raised in southern Illinois, and she was involved in the arts. My dad's a doctor.
What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.
So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.
