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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

I have a certain way of thinking where I see something, and I know that I want it and I make up my mind - and that's pretty much all there is to it. It was like, This is what I want to do, and I'm going, and everything's going to work out. I'm going to be an actress. There was no way around it.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.

I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.

I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.