Way Quotes

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

I have multipersonality disorder - in a very good way, of course - when it comes to my fashion choices.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

I quite clearly remember driving home at 9 a.m., after shooting all day, in a bathrobe, with bodypaint all over my face, and going through McDonald's drive-thru. I ordered a coffee to make sure I didn't crash on the way home. And the girl working there, she didn't even bat an eyelid. I guess it's a regular thing down in Hastings McDonald's.