Making Quotes

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.

And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.

Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.

Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.

People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?