I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.
I've never been one to try to find a niche for myself. I've always tried to wait and see what comes.
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.
I've been at this for a while, and to a very real extent, you look at cover art with the same sort of expectation you have for playing slot machines in Vegas. That is to say, you hope to break even and promise yourself not to flinch when all you get is the same sort of mix of fruit that you get in a cup of generic fruit cocktail.
The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the third Capt. that has been killed in that company.
No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.
I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.
The transition from tiny movies to less tiny movies to really big movies has been actually quite seamless in a lot of ways as far as my experience of acting in them.
As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.
I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.
Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books.
I don't take pictures when I'm with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It's important when you're as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you're with them, and nothing compromises that. I've been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
I was doing a college show for the first time, and there was this 20-year-old gay male who's been diabetic his entire life. He said, 'I really wanna get into stand-up.' I was like, 'Oh, my God, do you realize how interesting and inherently funny you are? Go do all the comedy that you wanna do.' I care about that.
I've been doing documentaries for about 25 years and want to continue to do that, but I love the idea of working in a different medium. Advertising pushes the envelope creatively, and there is some really great work being done right now, so I'm excited to jump into it.
Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.
There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.
I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.
Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.
I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.
I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.
Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.
I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.
A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must be wrong. Either the record company doesn't like your music, or you've been dropped. It has to something negative. It's not like you wanted to take a break, or want some balance, or smell the roses.
I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die.
However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.
I have the most wonderful children. I've been very, very blessed.
I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.
