People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.
Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.
And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
Never ran away for the sake of scars.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.
For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.
It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed.
Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in an particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable.
The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.
If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.
Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.
I feel like you can't just have fashion for fashion's sake.
I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.
I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.