I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.
I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.
I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.
If you can use a search engine, you can find any piece of music that's been recorded for free. I'm not saying that's right, but it's a fact, and I'm surprised that more people don't accept or acknowledge that and try to adapt in some way.
I kind of became a gym rat. The more results I saw, the more dedicated I became. It is such a great feeling to see your hard work pay off. I mean, if I'm gonna skip the In-N-Out burgers, there better be light at the end of the tunnel!
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed off. When I woke up, I thought I was back in a federal pen. But I did my time, and today no one is more of a free man than Chuck Zito.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.
I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.
Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.
There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.
I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.
After the smoke clears, I think people will say, 'You know what? That Shaun Alexander, he did all right when he was here. I think there will be more smiles when the smoke clears.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
In foreign policy, there are times when speaking with one voice - and it doesn't have to be mine - allows us to engage better on issues, and enables us to do things more effectively.
The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.
The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
I wanted to direct more than I wanted to act. And I found I couldn't do everything.
I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.
Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.
The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.
Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
In order to survive in a dangerous neighborhood, Israel has always needed to be more than tough. The country has always needed to be smart.
You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.
