Some Quotes

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.

I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor.

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Some people would like me to be round again.

My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun.

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.

Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life.

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.

Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.