82 quotes found
“To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.”
“Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.”
“What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.”
“Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.”
“I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do.”
“What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing ...”
“Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.”
“All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.”
“The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you...”
“I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're popular or not: we all have haters. But you have to be resilient. You have to not allow them to have the power o...”
“We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.”
“Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the p...”
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
“I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.”
“If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.”
“The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause gr...”
“We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young people start smoking, and one of the issues is the extent to which display of cigarettes and bra...”
“There's not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can't just think projects will come to you. You ...”
“I like stories that grow, that have unpredictable layers. As opposed to Hollywood movies that start out with a lot of shock and noise and peter out into an unconvincing cliche.”
“In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.”
