I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am and therefore how totally unspecial I am. I was special among everyone else who was special. The fact that we're all so individual and that's what makes us special.
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
I think often there is great rivalry between neurosurgeons and cardiac surgeons. I think I maybe have a bit of bias with neurosurgeons' opinion that nothing tops neurosurgery! But that makes for a quite interesting conflict between the two.
Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.
Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.
Somebody said to me, 'You should keep a journal of this period in your life and really write down this stuff.' But that makes me a little uneasy.
The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he just works so hard that he achieves beyond what you would think. 'Overachiever' is sort of a - it's sort of an incorrect term. An overachiever is someone that's just willing to pay the price to get so much more out of his performance.
When the brain is silent, the executive function, which is this part of the brain that makes decisions, can work much better. So when you get quiet, you make better decisions. You're also more rested - you're not as reactive.
I always love wearing Vivienne Westwood. Her dresses just seem to fit me perfectly, and she makes dresses for girls with curves - I love that.
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.
Lipstick doesn't really suit me. For shoots or when I go out, I use it - but if I use it all the time, it makes me look really old, so I keep it natural with nude or a natural pink. Though I did just do a shoot where they did a big red lip, and it looked amazing.
My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
Sooner or later, The Rock's going to get tired of that empty space on his mantle where an Oscar should be, and that's when I'll get the phone call for the buddy movie that finally makes his career.
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
It's just great when my job makes me more curious.
I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good.
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.
Also the pictures themselves give a visual to the audience tuning in, that makes them a very important part of law enforcement, or pulling families together.
There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.
You hope, when you're working on these things, that people love them whether it makes a lot of money or not.
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
The blueberry-soy weight-loss smoothies my son makes for me taste terrible, but my doctor says they're good for me.
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
For me, what makes you laugh makes you laugh.
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
