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You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.

The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.

If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, 'I've gotta go on this.

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.

If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know.

My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on

The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.

I actually barely ever go on the Internet.

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.

My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura', I became obsessed. I watched the movie as many times as I had to - back then, you couldn't go on the Internet and find the script - so I watched it as many times as I could to write my own script of 'Ace Ventura.'

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.

Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people who are hooked on that. But crossword puzzles, I just can't - if I get a puppy and I paper train him and I put the - if all of a sudden I'd open the paper and there's a crossword puzzle - 'No, no, you can't go on that, honey. I'll take it.'

And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums.

I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again.

I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.

That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.

When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

I never, ever, restrict food, and I will never go on a diet ever again.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?

I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

Whether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off it sooner or later. Offering a spectrum of choices is much more effective; then, you feel free and empowered.

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.