Making Quotes

I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

I wish to clarify that I have absolutely not made a decision regarding my participation in the next Olympics. On a personal level, playing in the Olympics would be a huge honour. However, the Games in Rio are still four years away and I certainly won't be making any decisions with regards to participating any time soon.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

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.

But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.

That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.

The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy.

For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.

It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

I never liked making albums.

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key.

You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special - in a way.

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.