'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.
I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
If you remember one thing from talking to me, remember this: I am just a girl who makes noises - and I'm incredibly lucky that people happen to like those noises.
Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day.
I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.
I'm proud of the way I've dealt with setbacks. It's hard when you feel down and you think, 'Why is the world doing this to me?' But you have to pick yourself up again. That's what makes you a better athlete.
I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
You get that air of satisfaction from achievement. It makes you feel good. We are only here for a very short time, and so you're crazy if you don't go out and try to milk it to the greatest extent you can.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.
If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.
Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.
I layer my moisturizers, which makes my complexion so fresh, I can wear less foundation.
Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10.
Growing up in a traditional environment, I was taught the importance of art, how it's connected to the soul, how it makes a human being. This made me understand and cherish American art forms.
As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.
Acting makes you live plenty of lives.
Giving is what makes a nation great.
Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.
I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don't I talk about race that often. I said, 'It's because I'm a neurosurgeon.' And she thought that was a strange response... I said, 'You see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.'
I'm not one to run around with different girls. I like someone that makes me feel good and that I can make feel good.
I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.
Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, 'Oh my God.' And that sense of awe? It's the second rule of science.
Having two children with autism, it makes you really think about how we do relate to each other.
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.
New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
