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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.

The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else.

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.

I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.

Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.

There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.

We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

I don't know what's going on that I'm hosting the Emmys during really hard times. But I guess it's an honor and a privilege that I'm the one who gets to try to walk that line of making people feel good.

If I like a song, I'll just keep playing it, and it never gets old.

You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast, you skip it.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.