If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
Just the thought of being on Oprah's radar at all is humbling, but to actually have her take time get on the phone with me kind of blows my mind.
Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?
I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.
The first step to take to wake up earlier is to have a nighttime routine that not only encourages you to fall asleep but also guarantees you'll sleep soundly each and every night.
I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.
They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.
I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.
It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.
I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.
With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.
I get burnt in the sun, so there's no point me getting pecs for when I take my shirt off in the summer.
I don't really know what to say about Izzy. It's like you could have a conversation and think it's one way, and the next day, it's another way. And I'm not trying to take any shots at Izzy. It's just his thing is kind of his thing, whatever that is.
I don't take my fans' love and dedication for granted.
I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.
People give me advice all the time, and I don't take a blind bit of notice.
I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.
I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
I don't really dissect too much when ideas come - they just kind of pop into my head; I just take them and run.
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
I don't take anything for granted.
Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.
In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.
We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.
I take a breath when I have to.
I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.
Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.
I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.
We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'
They'll take everything, even your tears.
I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.
The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.
