One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.

One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.

I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing.

If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

There are times when you want to go where you used to go and you can't go there.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

You learn fast from others how to be an entertainer as well as a musician; you don't necessarily have to get out there and just play - you can be an entertainer, too.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time.

I remember watching 'I Love Lucy' with my little brother. We were obsessed with 'I Love Lucy.' And I just remember thinking, 'I want to do that.' I love old comedic actresses - Madeline Kahn, Lucille Ball.

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

Everybody wants to be perfect.

Being a good tattle tale requires exceptional attention to details and then blowing them out of proportion.

Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.

That... is how the world moves Not like an arrow but a boomerang

You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexism is just allowed in our culture, not just in the entertainment industry. It's just allowed to be there, and that's not acceptable anymore. And I think it's really important to be very vocal.

China should cut heavy industries' share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

I know that if my mom fell and screamed for help my dad would jump right up to rescue her as soon as it was halftime.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

Fasting is not just a physical discipline it can be a spiritual feast.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.

We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

I still have lots of friends from my pre-success days.

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

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