I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.
My biggest hero Gregory Peck was my birthday present on April 14 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
If we were to select the most intelligent imaginative energetic and emotionally stable third of mankind all races would be present.
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
Genius is present in every age but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife at the age of 35 you could name two girlfriends.
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator our very self-consciousness is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
History is a relentless master. It has no present only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life comedy.
Before anything else we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth justice freedom and reason.
Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present the more intense that yearning.
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future.
Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession problems in mortgage markets the problems in the banking sector the problems in government finance in countries like Greece none of those problems were in present Canada.