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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened.

When I sing full-on I use my whole body. I open my throat and let it fly out.

I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry.

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.

We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything.

We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing.

Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue.

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.