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There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.

And we've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and about how we live our life. And so, the election, again, will not be decided on that. It will be decided on who is gonna turn the economy around and how are jobs gonna come back to America.

I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.

I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.

Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.

It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.

I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It's very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting.

RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.