I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.
I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss.
If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.
The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
If I was producing something, it wouldn't make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn't put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn't go to a movie because that person's father is so and so.
On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
'Billy Elliot' prides itself on being a family show, and it made sense to specifically cater to a family audience with an earlier evening curtain time.
If the country is ever attacked as it was on 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency.
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.
I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective.
Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.
I never take on anything that is just for the money or just for, you know. I always have to connect with it in a very personal way because I believe the audience will sense whether I'm into it or not, so I don't take on projects that I'm not really passionate about.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.
I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.
In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
England has been called, with great felicity of conception, 'the land of liberty and good sense.' We have preserved many of the advantages of a free people, which the nations of the Continent have long since lost.
When I look at the clouds over the Earth, and I know how high clouds are, I get a sense we are really, really far above those clouds. I wouldn't call it scary, but I am aware I am in space.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
We do not need to be heroes to save the world; all we need is humility, a critical view of the commercial and political interests of those who would mislead us into wrongdoing, and a sense of wonder.
I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.
From the sense of being an ambassador for Jesus Christ, hopefully, through my story and through all the improbables and the miracles that happened in my life, people are inspired or at least a little bit warmer to the idea of exploring who Jesus is.
