Way Quotes
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You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.
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I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.
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I'm not trying to say I accomplished nothing, I'm just trying to say that at this point in my life, I don't want to look at what I've accomplished and hold it like it's my trophy. I've got so much more to do; I don't want to put that gold medal around my neck yet. When I accomplish ten times what I've accomplished already, I'll start thinking about that. But a better way to put it is I kind of forget about it. I do it and I forget about it. And I just work.
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In difficult times bring to mind my words and the sound of my voice. In that way, I shall always be present for you.
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The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.
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When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways.
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I would drive on streets that were one-way and think, "Why are they all honking at me?"
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I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.
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The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.
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From this day forward, speak to yourself in a way that you would someone you care about.
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The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.
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The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.
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The way he was playing, he probably could have scored on Jesus.
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When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.
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A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.
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Sometimes people are primed to hear in a certain way. When a word like braggadocious suddenly appears, it's like, 'What, is he just making that up?'
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For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
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I wish I still had my grandmother’s ring so I could give it to her the right way. Except now, he was also thinking, Please God let me not blow this, let this not be a huge mistake.
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I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.
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Into the woods--you have to grope, But that's the way you learn to cope. Into the woods to find there's hope Of getting through the journey.
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Can you imagine Jesus saying, “Believe that I am the only way. Why? Because I said so, that’s why! And if you don’t believe, then you’re going straight to hell!” But isn’t that how we present him through our slogans?
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I treat everyone as a friend, but if they betray me, that's it. They're out of my life in one way or another.
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I found my way to make my peace with the recent past by turning it into WORD.
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Things... well, things suck sometimes. And sometimes you can fix it. And sometimes you can't. It's just the way it is.
