In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph of error. In the republic of the sciences sedition and even anarchy are beneficial in the long run to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots
Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.
When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.
I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere. " I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so. " It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.
If Ive got a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thats usually a good day for me.
When you watch these reality shows, the person that is hated on the most is usually the one that gets the most shine.
I had a very famous trainer tell me once, You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever. They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.
History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.
There's always music that moves me. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It's usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.
As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.
In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.
On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across disciplines. Often enough that work spills over to my creative readingthinking, and I reach a point of saturation where I can't distinguish between texts and writers and everything starts to blur and smudge together.
I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused.
Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.
I usually balance school by doing online classes and regular classes - that has helped me a lot, and I'm able to get my schoolwork done while I'm traveling too.