That's what I love about dance. It makes you happy, fully happy.
I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.
When you don't have one that you throw for strikes - they are good hitters - they can cancel out one pitch and go to another. Now I have four pitches. If one's not working, I've got three others. It makes the game totally different.
You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.
'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.
Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of imponderables makes it impossible to sentence by formula and still sentence justly.
I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.
It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.
When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
I like music when it makes you feel.
I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.
My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Some writers may hate interacting on social media. And if you do, don't do it, because it shows. If you are uncomfortable being out in public, that shows, too, and makes the reader uncomfortable. So find the best way for you to connect with your readers and a way that you enjoy.
What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.
Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.
Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise.
You know, the blond guy plays the good guy and I play the bad part, the bad guys. Which is a lot of fun. Playing the bad guy is great. And it's the whole British thing. You know, in so many films the bad guy is British. Gary Oldman makes a living doing that.
When you go through the death of somebody who you care about, and taking on moving, bills, and a daughter, it makes you feel older. You learn a lot about life.
