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Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

British humour is very cruel. It's my favourite kind of humour; if it isn't cruel and funny it doesn't really cut the cake for me.

Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.

Building places that are worth living in and worth caring about require a certain attention to detail, and of a particular kind of detail that we have forgotten how to design and assemble. And that involves the relationship of the buildings to each other, the relationship of the buildings to the public space, which in America, comes mostly in the form of the street. Because it's only the exceptional places in America that have the village square or the New England green. You know. The street is mostly the public realm of America. And we have to design these things so that they reward us.

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

But deep this truth impressed my mind — Thro' all his works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.

But I always kind of knew in the back of my head that I could come back and do Stone Sour.

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.

But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.

But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did.

But, people are recognizing me more. Sometimes fans just approach me on the street and say how much they love the show. It's great to get that kind of feedback.

But the Go-Go's are a very original, kind of organic thing.

But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.

But there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

But who are you?" Percy—" I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. "Gotta go!" What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

By getting rid of loopholes, you are making the system more fair so people who make the same kind of money pay the same taxes.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.

By staying calm, you increase your resistance against any kind of storms.

By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.

CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.

By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.

Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.

By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in restating the same questions that undermined it in earlier epochs. What kind of designer or creator is so wasteful and capricious and approximate? What kind of designer or creator is so cruel and indifferent? And - most of all - what kind of designer or creator only chooses to "reveal" himself to semi-stupefied peasants in desert regions?

Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?

Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?

Captain Lone Wolf Gonzaullas was one of a kind. I'm sure he would agree to this truth, If you continuously compete with others, you will become bitter. If you constantly compete with yourself, you can become great.

[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.