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Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.

If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.

There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.

I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular.

I've not actually been on too many dates.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.

Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.

The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.

Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success.

I actually became a Christian in my rookie year on tour when I was 16 years old.

Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.

Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

The physical environment of L.A. is really beautiful. It's actually kinda fun, too, if you're working. It's just not really fun if you're not working and you don't know anybody.