Some Quotes

Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome.

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up.

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Some people are so afraid of getting to know themselves that they live and define their lives through the dreams and goals of others.

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.