Making Quotes

Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

This is my future and I will take personal responsibility for making sure all competition requirements are met.

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun.

Ultimately, it has been a struggle- but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago, sitting in theaters with complete strangers watching this weird movie that Kirk and I thought up and I was excited to be making film.

Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.

There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it... with you.

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.

I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.