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It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to.

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

If somebody ever wished to be me for a day, they'd be the most pissed-off person once they got here. They would be, like, in hell.

If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.

It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after.

Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.