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I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'

When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use.

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.