It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.
Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.
I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.
I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.
Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.
If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
Each of us bears his own Hell.
In every community in Illinois, same-sex couples have chosen to join together and, in many instances, to raise families of their own. These couples are our relatives and friends, our neighbors, co-workers and parents of our children's classmates. They deserve the same rights and responsibilities that civil marriage offers straight couples.
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.
In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.
Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.
When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.
Different people approach the universe in different ways, but they also approach their own expectations in different ways.
I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
I always had a love for kids' clothes, but having your own kids is a better education for what is practical. I used to buy such crazy things for the store that were so much fun but not the most practical.
People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.
We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.
I own my own time.
I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.
Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
People are tired of being kept from the dignity that allows them to make their own choices.
I think you create your own hipness.
Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.
I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.
I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.
Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.