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Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.

Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'

You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.

There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.

We don't want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage,... It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.

During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles.

It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.