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For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck.

I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.

It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.

I never really am in awe of people because we are just equal at the end of the day.

At the end of the day, it's all about money.

After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.

At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.

Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.

I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way kind of bittersweet, but it's also what the show's about, one administration ends and another begins.

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

'Big Little Lies' is the story of a school trivia night that goes horrifically wrong, when one parent ends up dead, possibly murdered. I have never attended a school trivia night where a parent ended up dead. In fact, I've never been to a school trivia night at all.

Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.

It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden.

I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy.

In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

But all of this success came at the end of a long climb.

In the end, all Republicans want to make sure we don't increase taxes. That's where we differ with the Democrats.

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Music will never stop - it can never stop. I will continue to sing for my fans till the end of time.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me.

Actors always lie about horse-riding, and it ends terribly. I can horse-ride... ish.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Don't ever take a shower with a woman, because you'll probably end up proposing to her

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it.

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.

Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

I recommend people develop a fear of elevators, like I have. Even if something is on the tenth floor, I'm walking up. If you don't have claustrophobia, pretend you do and take the stairs everywhere! It ends up being so healthy!

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That's my thoughts.

To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

I cry at the end of every book.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.

One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

If you wait to see how much money you have left at the end of the month to put toward savings, the answer may be zero. So, set up an automated monthly transfer from your checking to savings account. Once you lock into that commitment, you'll be forced to scale back spending to make ends meet.

Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.

How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset - that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.

I don't know why I always end up talking about my relationships. I try not to.

Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal

We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Money is all right but once you have it you learn it's not the be all and end all.

I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes that give an arc to their characters and allow audiences to get to know these people.

When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.

The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.

One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don't the stories lack complexity? Don't the readers get bored?

The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.

When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.

In the end, that's what it comes down to with Mitt Romney. He's running as the non-Barack Obama.

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.

At the end of our lives we all ask, did i live? Did i love? Did i matter?

What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.

Having worked in disasters, I have seen that, in those critical first few hours, those first few days - so much ends up riding on you and your neighbor and whoever is around. The official response always comes later, and it always feels like it comes too slow.

Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

I have my mother's hips. The minute I eat it, it ends up on my hips.