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In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

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

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.