Quotes on Anything

I have come to the conclusion there is no point making anything if you're not going to make people laugh and cry.

You never hear about a pit bull doing anything good in the media. And they have a stigma to them... and, in many ways, pit bulls are like young African-American males. Whenever you see us in the news, it's for getting shot and killed or shooting and killing somebody - for being a stereotype.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else.

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

When I'm writing, I'm never trying to teach anything - maybe I'm trying to illuminate.

It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality worse than anything, and therefore, he uses free verse - though free verse is no guarantee against banality.

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. All I know is I'm eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.

The fighters who give it all will be around for next year. Give it all you've got. Don't save anything.

I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.

I don't remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

When I was coming out of depression, I made one random video. It wasn't funny or anything, but just the idea that people I didn't know were watching it made me feel less alone than I'd felt in a long time.

Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There's no legislative authority; you're not elected. And that's a wonderful gift of freedom.

The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.

Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics. I think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.'

Feeling we have to be constantly updated about the lives of our friends and that everything we say has to be out there leads to frustration, anger and jealousy much more than it leads to anything else.