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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.

If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.