I Quotes
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“I make NO apologies for my creativity.”
“I make no apologies for my insanity, as it is government mandated.”
“I make no apologies for Popeye. Behind M*A*S*H, it's my biggest hit. It got maligned by the critics because it wasn't Superman. It wasn't about special effects and it wasn't made for 14-year-old boys. The majority of films are made for 14-year-old boys; I don't know where they get the eight bucks to get in. It's hush money from the parents.”
“I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values.”
“I make no apologies for you. After all, each one of us is little more than the meager residue of the infinite unrealized possibilities of our lives.”
“I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.”
“I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath”
“I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.”
“I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born”
“I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.”
Source: Selected poems
“I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.”
“I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.”
“I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.”
“I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.”
“I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.”
Source: In good faith
“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.”
“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.”
“I make no distinction between poetry and painting.”
“I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.”
“I make no distinction whatever between reality and fantasy, or the objective and the subjective. All life and all awareness are ultimately one, including intensest pain and death itself. Not all the play need please us, and ends are never comforting. Some things fit together harmoniously and beautifully and startlingly with thrilling discords—those are true—and some do not, and those are merely bad art. Don't you see?”
“I make no doubt, the consternation was general; it must be very disagreeable to have so fatal an event break in upon an entertainment that cost fifty thousand crowns.”
Source: The Letters of Madame De Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends
“I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.”
“I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause, and I realize that it would be wrong of me to try to defend myself. Nevertheless, there is at least the possibility of an explanation.”
Source: The New York Trilogy
“I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.”
“I make no secret of the fact that I was not a big Hillary Clinton supporter, but I thought in the two-way race between her and Donald Trump, that she should have been the president. But Trump promised a lot of things. And now he's six months in and hasn't passed a piece of legislation yet. Now, I personally have said we should help him. I didn't vote for him. I didn't think he was the right person. But once we have an election and he gets elected, then we have a responsibility as citizens to help him.”
“I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.”
Source: Superwoman
“I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.”
Source: Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography
“I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing and directing reality, rather than creating scenarios.”
“I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then apply to it what intellectual & critical forces I possess—let it breed another, let that image contradict the first, make, of the third image bred out of the other two together, a fourth contradictory image, and let them all, within my imposed formal limits, conflict.”
“I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.”
Source: An American Journey: The Presidential Campaign Speeches of George McGovern
“I make our family traditions a priority.”
“I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I don't really know how to not do that. I'm not very free in a way. Even though it looks free. But it's not.”
“I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as anybody. Just say I'm one of the best broken field runners that ever lived. For 35 years I was a cult hero, an underground funny.”
“I make people laugh hard; I'm a comic, that's just the way it is. And I make them laugh because I'm funny, not because I'm filthy. The subject matter is dirty, but the pictures I paint are really funny. A lot of comics don't understand that that's what it's about. It's just, "I'll be dirty and they'll laugh." Nobody's becoming a superstar that way.”
“I make people see what they desire and fear. Those two things might seem like contradictory concepts, but they’re actually closely intertwined.”
Source: (Self-Proclaimed) Menace To Society
“I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.”
“I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.”
“I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.”
“I make pink look pretty damn good.”
“I make plans knowing they won’t go according to plan, but through planning, I open the pathway for God’s will to come to fruition.”
“I make playlists on my iPod like nobody's business!”
“I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.”
“I make positive choices so I can be happy.”
“I make predictions about what I'm going to do before a fight, that makes me nervous because I've gotten so good at it until people really look for me to do it.If I say the man's going to fall in round five, like your man Henry Cooper here, he was stopped in round five but it was on a cut - it wasn't because he was out. But usually 'm on the spot with my predictions and some people really gamble and bet money on the rounds I say.”
“I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.”
“I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.”
“I make records so I can buy art.”
“I make records with an open mind, I always have.”
“I make rude gestures at nuns”