On The Way Quotes

We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself.

In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.

I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

I just want to make people laugh, and I want to do that the best way possible.

I don't see my work as being all that personal. I've used my personal experience in the world, of course, or at least my way of looking at the world. But I think that's changed as I've gotten older.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They just are somebody.

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.

I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.

The film industry needs to find a way to bring audiences to movie theaters. It's more of a technical trick than a revolution.

I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way.

No one country can confront them alone…the only way forward is together.

I was appearing on the reality show R&B Divas and when I started to fall apart it was very public. But I am glad that it happened that way. It made me see myself. And it made me transparent.

Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.

When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's disappointing when it's not.

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

So it's true, then, being in love is like hitting the sweepstakes. It doesn't happen to everyone, and there's no way of saying who's going to win, but it changes your life when it does.

The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.

The way I work with music is that I take on the story.

I realized there was a better way to broadcast the news that empowered people to believe they could overcome challenges.

I find that one must accept the people in such a way as they are.

NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you probably wouldn't do in a normal circumstance.

When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing everything it can be, and anticipate that.

It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.

There is not a man born among us who dreams—at first—of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.

The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.

We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.

What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

There's nothing wrong with having a 9-to-5 job, but figure out a way to have another stream of income.

Light has a way of keeping people honest.

The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.

Yes, romance has found it's way into my heart in the past

In the career world we are downsizing. That means the one person that will keep their job will do three or four jobs for the same amount of money. You have to be that way these days.

I enjoy the attention. I like the cameras. In a way, they make me play better.

Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.

Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.