I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
I've been studying on my own. I'm not really trained. I went to school for about a year and a half. I never really studied music, but, I mean, I did. I studied for two years, maybe.
I always wished I could move around and switch schools. It was hard to have these radical transformations. You'd think, 'I will be a totally different person tomorrow,' but it never worked.
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
The soul never thinks without a picture.
I'm never not going to be interested in young girls who are struggling in poor places.
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.
I never thought I'd sing or dance on national television.
Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!
Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
I don't hate redheads! The millionaire men - wealthy men - never pick them. Every time I offer them they say no. I could say the most gorgeous redhead in the world and they'll say no, they don't want it. Now if you ask an Irish guy in Ireland, he says 'yes,' because that's indigenous to that country.
You never know when you are doing something that is affecting someone.
I've never consciously done 'safe' commercial projects; luckily, they have done well.
As evidenced during my failed audition, I'm a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a 'Real World' house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.
I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.
What's crucial is to never get stuck. Making hard decisions is such an important part of being a startup in order to keep moving forward.
I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.
You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.
I never wear leather.
Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.
My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.
She defaced my fly. And I've never been the same since.
I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.
I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.
