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[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.

It's not going to be easy to change things.

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

I just want to keep working, really. I just want to keep acting. Playing one part for a very long time builds up in you a desire to play as many different things as you can.

Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with Justin Bieber, or whether it's magic.

To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

I do what I do because my favorite thing is to learn.

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster and with more energy!

I think that things happen for a reason.

The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.

Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that truly matter most.

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

Good brands do three things for highly stressed out consumers: 1. They save time. 2. They project the right message. 3. They provide an identity.

This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.

A job is a very healthy thing to do.

The starting point for creativity is silence... the creative soil of silence, where can be found the seed-states of all things.

I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality.

I don't really memorize every little thing I have to do because then I start to think about it too much! I like to keep it in the here and now and not what's coming up.

When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.

Success in life isn't only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.

There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.

My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen.

Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very pleasant things to do.

I'm not a debater. I get things done.

I don't know Putin. He said nice things about me. If we got along well, that would be good.

Hillary Clinton's message is that things will never change, never, ever. My message is that things have to change and they have to change right now.

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not.

I do good things in my life, too. It's just that none of them are funny.

I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money.

A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure.

A comic says funny things. A comedian says things funny.

Things are finally starting to calm down and be the way they're supposed to be. I think things happen for a reason.

People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.

It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.

Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.

God is the explanation of all things.