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My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

I like the way you can stretch things out and leave a huge amount of space that, on a record, would feel like silence. I enjoy the possibilities.

No amount of anxiety or worry is going to make any difference to anything that's going to happen anyway, so why let yourself feel so heavy?

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.

I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.

I'm on my own, luckily doing well, but like I said, we don't make a ridiculous amount of money and I have to be disciplined with what I do with it.

I would by no means call myself an expert or say that I'm extremely into superhero movies, but I've pretty much seen every Avengers movie and Iron Man, so I'd say a good amount.

I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.

I'm not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.

No amount of success - whatever that means, quote-unquote success - no amount of success replaces the reality of being separated from my family for this long.

I have experienced a tremendous amount of personal and professional growth, and I feel incredibly lucky that I'm able to make a career out of doing the things that I love.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.

There has been a fair amount of criticism of the DNC for letting this squabble between [Bernie] Sanders and [Hillary] Clinton campaigns spill out into the open.

Putting our expectations on others is a habit that keeps us feeling frustrated. It diminishes the amount of love we feel.

Question- Should I loan a small amount of money to a friend? Answer- If you are sure that you can, if necessary, spare both.

I love traveling and I love seeing new places and meeting new people, but at the same time, it takes a certain amount of emotional strength to gel with that, at least for me.

Intersectionality may well sound like some unfortunate bowel complaint resulting in copious use of a colostomy bag, and indeed it does contain a large amount of ordure.

I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.

Everything amounts to nothing if you don't love someone or something.

It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.

People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it's slow, distracting, and inefficient. It's almost a counterproductivity tool.

The amount of people that I feel like... I'm not being self-demeaning, but I actually feel like I'm not as cool as them, you know what I mean?

We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes.

Any woman that you're in love with or that loves you is going to command a certain amount of, you know, energy. It's actually easier to focus, in some ways.

The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.

There is no set period of time or total amount of carbon emissions that we can stay below to ensure we stay safe.

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.

I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.

Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

I've found that depending on the amount of the check, disciplined inspiration can be called upon willingly. I think the name of the lesser known tenth muse was Dollar Dollar Bill Y'all.

You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying levels of intensity, based on the amount of time and energy I have available.

Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

A lot of people my age, they grew up with me onscreen. I think that's helped keep a certain amount of longevity. When you grow up with a person, you feel like you know them.

Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.

It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

I know there will be X amount of women being diagnosed. I love to say, You can get through it. You can.

[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.

I think after a certain amount, I’m going to give almost everything I have to charity. What else can you do with it? You can't spend it, even if you try. I've been trying.

Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.