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This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

I'm the kind of person who always likes to be doing something.

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they're educated. They go in ready and they're up for it, they're up for the party. It's a whole different atmosphere.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.