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I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

One and God make a majority.

I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

I'm glad if my work can make a difference.

My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?