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I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easier life from now on. The world's a massive place with lots of early mornings and late starts when you're working.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here.

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time.

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.

I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything.

I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.

I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

I can't stand reading anything that I've said.

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

For 'Narrow Stairs,' the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.