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I get so many ideas for songs, but I’m so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

You take what you’ve learned, you pass it down, and you keep working.

There’s a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says ‘we are here because we care about you; we want what’s best for you’. But really what they want is the control of your life.

Sometimes you have to get down and dirty. It feels good.

I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.

It was right after 9/11 and I decided to walk around the grounds of the Pentagon, because I had never been there. Out of nowhere comes this speeding camouflaged golf cart and this guy starts yelling at me, ‘What do you think you’re doing!’ The guy wrote my name down and began to follow me before I got really scared and took off as fast as I could.

What the men like best are what there’s the least sense in, dresses you can’t sit down in, that won’t stand a lot of action, that hobble you and truss you up and slow you down and fix it so you can’t hardly breathe, till finally you’re off in one corner, like a bird in a cage, not cluttering up the busy paths in life that men has got to use. That’s the styles they really like!

I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.

Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.

Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it – don’t back down and don’t give up – then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.

The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard

Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.

I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about – the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There’s no doubt it’s the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire, it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can’t survive without being nurtured by water And yet, you haven’t drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them

And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.

I think when you slow Enrique [Iglesias] down and really listen to what he’s saying, it’s an explosion of bad taste.

It’s all a play. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen, there are hundreds of thousands of dead, and the curtain comes down, and that’s the end of that. Then Korea happens. Vietnam happens, all that happened in Latin America happens. And every now and then, this curtain comes down and history begins anew. New moralities and new indignations are manufactured…in a disappeared history.

I don’t seem to require a lot of sleep. I just – if I get four, five good hours, I’m fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There’s a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.

Now that I am an adult, I’m very comfortable in my own skin. I’m a lot more settled down and I learnt to just be comfortable with where I’m at, rather than always wanting to be somewhere ahead of where I am.

I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.

The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die… It seems an easy choice – sacrifice the tree for a human life – until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated.

Realize that the reason most people fail isn’t because of the competition but because of the limits they place upon themselves, allowing defeat to take over. Take responsibility for your destiny. You can come up with a performance, if you can reach down and dig deep enough into your competitive soul. You can overcome tremendous obstacles.

I’d like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

We have this day to be alive. We better lay down and give up, or stand up and really make some worthwhile memories for ourselves. ‘Cause we’re not going to be alive forever

Dreams don’t always have to exist while the sun’s down and your eyes are shut

Now it’s just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, ‘What are you doing for your country?’ you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.

Maybe…in a way, this coffee reminds me of something. Maybe…maybe only a philosopher or a mad man would make this connection, but it’s a little like life. I mean it’s powerful going down and that doesn’t even take into account the aftertaste, which really takes getting used to.

If man had written the Gospels – say Shakespeare or Eugene O’Neill – the story of the gospel would have been drastically different. They would have placed the prince in halls and palaces and had him walking among the great. They would have had him surrounded by the important and significant of the time. Potentates and kings would have been His companions. But how sweetly common was the real God-man; though He had inhabited all eternity, He had come down and was subject to the rising and the setting of the sun.

Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God’s advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.

The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.

I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds; he was the only reason my guts were being strewn over the water like an oil slick … I pressed one last time, and looked at the finish-line flagman. In that instant the flag jumped down and then up. The up stroke, identifying the second place finisher, was for me. John Biglow was the victor. I stared into the green-brown water watching my bloody soul drop through the depths, slowly rocking back and forth, occasionally glinting in the light, and then finally disappearing.

Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic.