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It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

The best person to get something done is a busy person.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.