Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.
It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy.
I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.
I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.
This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.
Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.
I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.
And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.
I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.
At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.
In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
A big part of finding the right resources is knowing what to look for and what to avoid.
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.
Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.
Due to my sometimes erratic behavior, my children tried very hard to avoid me and not do anything to set me off.
I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
If you want to avoid criticism, then you shouldn't be a historian, because historians are trying to understand and explain. If you're trying to please people, then you should go into the fashion business, or the candy business.
It's not an exercise on how to avoid getting hit. I think there are certain safety measures that take care of the mental part of it, with players not looking to hit somebody in the head. They've done that. But let's not take the entertainment value out of football.
I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real question of what's inside: I avoid books that seem to conservatively follow stale formulas. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that.
I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.
My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
I prefer to have longevity. I like as great a variety as possible, hopefully to avoid getting stuck in one kind of character, having to do it over and over again. I seek to challenge myself as an actor - and at the same time support my family.
