Somebody Quotes

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!

I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere.

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president.

We need different perspectives here in Washington - someone who has private-sector experience, somebody who's actually created jobs, manufactures products, understands the incentives and disincentives, the intended and unintended consequences of legislation.

Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.

It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

I guess men like me - somebody out there must think I'm hot.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you.

What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me.

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.