You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.
The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
Look at the laws: you can't spank a kid without getting in trouble. That kept me in line!
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.
Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.
Exercise is labor without weariness.
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.
Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
I can go days without meaningful human interaction.
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.
I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.
I can say yes to some directors without even reading a script. But the first-time directors I've worked with, the scripts have not been perfect, but they had something that I liked.
I can't leave home without certain movies. 'The Godfather' is a big one for me. And I've gotta have my beats so I can write new music.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.
I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we were the only black people in that neighborhood, the cops got called, and we had guns drawn on us. Came in the house, without knocking, guns drawn on my teammates and roommates. So I have experienced this.
Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet.
I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.
I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.
I'm really keen to go back and do some theatre, but I can't afford to at the moment because we're getting married in September. And then I'm hoping to direct a film at the end of this year, and that means a year of your life without pay.
But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
