So. . . have you ever thought about dyeing your hair punk-rocker-chick black? As I'm sure you've heard, I have a thing for brunettes and always avoid blondes. " "I've heard. And no. " "Too bad. Because you're making me rethink my stance about doing my friends' exes. " i snorted, not even trying to hide my. . . incredulity? Surely I wasn't amused. "Your making me rethink my stance on cold-blooded homicide
We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price. We buy very few securities, so we look at it as "focused" investing.
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (. . . ) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no. 134
You are the somewhere you are trying to get to.
I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.
I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.
Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable.
I'm trying to get good message out to the people. It's like the scriptures because you know what the scriptures are in the bible. Words of Jah, words of Christ, words of Rasta and everything that's righteous are in the scriptures unto I and I.
I still go through stages of wanting to try other trades. When I was young I thought I'd be a magician. And then a cartoonist. Or a professional roller-skater. But there wasn't much support for those on career day.
You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.
The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.
Hollywood is just so strange. It's like, everyone has a whole bunch of stuff boiling away and whichever one happens first, happens. That one, we're still in the process of, you know, trying to write the script. So, it's still very early stages at this point. Yeah.
Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone—in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.
Any extra free time you have, you are sleeping, or you're trying to sleep
Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.
Somebody is always suspecting Russia of having some ambitions, there are always those who are trying to misinterpret us or keep something back.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.
I don't think my lyrics go so well when I try to sound poetic. Some people do that really well. If I did that I'd feel like it wouldn't be genuine.
