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I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

I'd say most of my work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit. We're bombarded with sound at every level.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

I have two favorite colors - white and yellow. White makes me feel light and airy. Yellow makes me happy.

You know, people have tried to make out there is a split between environmentalism and labor over the years. And if that was ever true, it becomes less so all the time.

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.

Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

The universe does not make sense without God.

That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the time.

Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.

Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.

Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.

I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying.

I love movies that have that resonating scare, that really get under your skin and make you think.

Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it.

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

The first person I learned I could make happy with laughter was my mother, whom I idolize. It was a powerful thing to realize. I knew I had found my life's work.

Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.

Despite whoever created it, it's my world, & the only one I've got. Might as well make the best of it, right? Might as well have a little fun while I'm here. Or a lot of fun. Might be dead tomorrow.

Dream big. Find what makes you happy, and pursue it as you would food and warmth. You deserve it. And if you don’t, then do what it takes to become worthy of it.

The destination you think is going to make you happy, doesn't.

The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.

You don't have the bug, so go do what makes you happy.

Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.

I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.

I like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.

If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account

The best advertising and the best communication when it comes to business is that which makes you smile, that which makes you think, that which makes you ponder.

I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty." That's like junk food, to me.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.

I don't like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that's happening, stuff that's going to happen, and the people who are going to make it happen.

The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.

Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.

Think about these things and see if they make sense to you. You will find that work will no longer be a four-letter word. It will be a three-letter word: fun.

Everything starts within your own mind. The physical choices you make, drain your power or give you power. If your power is low, then you stay in lower levels of mind and you don't see opportunities.

Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.

Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it happen.

Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.

I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.

There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.

A better lifetime comes from not some karmic scale but from inner knowledge. Inner knowledge makes you happy. In other words, it is not as if someone is checking!

If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults.

I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.

Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if the getting from A to B doesn't totally make sense initially.