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Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.