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Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.

It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.

Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake.

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

To me, it's all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.

Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

I remember when I did the pilot, and I though no network is going to want to do this. How could that happen? A half Chinese guy walking the old west that doesn't fire one gun and never gets on a horse?

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.

I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.

The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

You have to do anything you can think of that gets you excited.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.

I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.

Sometimes when the going gets tough, people give up.

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic activity.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.