Making Quotes

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.

This is my future and I will take personal responsibility for making sure all competition requirements are met.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.

I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.

As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.

I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason.

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.

The key to staying together is making sure you guys like each other and need each other.

The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.