Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.
I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
There were a lot of songs during my MCA years that I thought should have been singles but were not. You can't worry about what wasn't - I was very lucky to have as many hits as I had.
For me, it's always about the work and the stories I'm telling and the slices of life I feel should be illuminated.
If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.
At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.
The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.
I thought it was unfair to ask school kids to integrate first. The parents should lead the way, not send out the children as advance troops.
A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
There are far too many politicians out there who take the wrong position and stick with it and never admit that they should do something different.
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.
I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can.
We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called a 'God committee' to choose who should get it, and that committee was eventually abandoned. Society ended up paying the whole bill for dialysis instead of having people make those decisions.
It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.
The only thing the East German system taught us was that we should never do it that way again.
However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.
All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.
We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.
Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!
