But had they not paid that advance we would have lost much more, we would have started to go and look for the product all over again, the refinery would have stopped working.

But had they not paid that advance we would have lost much more, we would have started to go and look for the product all over again, the refinery would have stopped working.

I'm certainly hoping that all the recommendations that we have heard will be implemented.

We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects.

They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.

They've participated extensively in this conference and they are doing their best to help.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Let's be honest, I don't think anyone ever wants to settle down in Hollywood - it's a place you go to work. And once you've hit it, you get out of there as soon as you can. It's definitely not a place you want to get married and have kids.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.

I just try to think of all the things that could go wrong so in that split second when it happens, maybe your body reacts in a way where it protects you just a little.

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.

I've always wondered if, at some point, everything will snap, and it'll be like 'Alice in Wonderland,' where the delightfully mad people turn into sinister mad people.

Its really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

I believe in rules. I believe in artistic limitations, and I always have. I've always thought that setting out a set of rules before you start, and then being completely consistent with them, is the only way to make a really good film.

Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

I never set goals.

I'd like to give anyone else a go at being scrutinised. Daily. It's not easy.

I'm probably tougher on myself than I used to be. I'll revise my lyrics more. Part of that is working with the right people and producers who will say, 'How can you make that better?' Allowing yourself to collaborate with people will push you toward transcendence.

Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.

Thats what fiction is for. Its for getting at the truth when the truth isnt sufficient for the truth.

I was really impressed with and excited about being immersed in this world and this time period with 'Fences,' being able to walk the neighborhood, and it looks exactly like the 1950s.

To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing.

We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world.

In 1817, Czar Alexander I personally founded the Society of Israelite Christians but had less luck defeating Judaism than he'd had defeating Napoleon; gentile serfs and merchants in areas bordering the Pale even showed disturbing new signs of 'Judaizing.'