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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

For myself, for a long time... maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn't worth hearing, and I think everyone's voice is worth hearing. So if you've got something to say, say it from the rooftops.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

I like children - fried.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.