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The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

When every one is somebody, Then no one's anybody!

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music.

I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid.

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.