In interviews, the first question I get in America is always: 'What do you do to stay young?' I do nothing. I don't think aging is a problem. . . I'm so surprised that the emphasis on aging here is on physical decay, when aging brings such incredible freedom. Now what I want most is laughs. I don't want to hurt anybody by laughing -- there is no meanness to it. I just want to laugh.
People put too much emphasis on looks.
Emphasis in China is done aggressively. Sometimes, this is done rudely, but most of the time it's just done routinely. It's just a normal thing in the course of your encounters with Chinese people in every walk of life.
You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.
The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give.
(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.
Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal. "
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?
Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful in those schools in which the resources available to help the children learn the skills that will be measured by these tests are fewest, the scores they get are predictably the lowest, and the strategies resorted to by principals in order to escape the odium attaching to a disappointing set of numbers tend to be the most severe.
I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.
The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.
Technological measures are important, but equally important is. . . a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.
. . . Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.
It is important for those of us who are Christian to remember that our physical lives don't last forever. Our souls will last an eternity, and thus we should place even more emphasis on the health of our souls than the health of our bodies.
It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.
To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.
Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.