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A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.

I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.

Well, just coming off the stage and there's like 180,000 people out there and your adrenaline is going so high, and you're doing so much and it's hard to just put your head on the pillow and sleep because it just goes on and on, even after you're off the stage.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.