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Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

There's always competition out there. That's what makes life exciting.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

I am so not a proper, good female. I can't dance in high heels and I'm just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman.

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.