A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard
I make it a point not to buy certain magazines, not because I am against tabloids or things like that, but I want to fill my mind with valid issues in the world.
The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.
You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas.
I think the biggest lesson is the common one that gets in the way of most of us as artists - there are these messages in society that if you aren't hitting certain metrics, then you're not successful and you're not valid.
Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.
I'm not ashamed of being a bubbly, funny person. I think that's as valid as being the dark, brooding, tortured Oscar-nominated one.
It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Maybe at some subconscious level, things are done to upset somebody - part of me continues to see no valid reason for many of the accepted rules of design.
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
It is sometimes argued that one of the benefits of legalizing addictive drugs is that they could be taxed, and the government revenues enhanced. From this perspective, this would be the only valid case against legalization.
I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration.
I think the theme that I was attracted to in 'Beautiful Creatures' was you claim yourself. In my opinion, I think that's a really valid idea and I'm glad that that's our foundation.
As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Being told you're too small and never going to make it is an opinion. And it's a valid opinion, and it's something you take in your stride.
It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.
Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
Sometimes it's good to just sing and let the words come out. Whatever comes out is valid because it's what you were thinking.
When considering a career move, consider the most important assumptions that have to prove true and how you can swiftly and inexpensively test if they are valid. Also, remain realistic about the path ahead of you.
Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.
Having trans people play trans roles show that we are valid in our identities, and we exist.
What is a valid reason for someone to love someone else? Since apparently I’m doing it wrong.
I enjoy the speed of fashion. I love doing different things and I think I still have something valid to say in fashion.
I always tell people that my music should speak to them... and that they shouldn't feel obligated to say why or how. All reactions are valid; the important thing is to have the experience.
We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing.
I was the first generation of filmmakers where videogames were a serious part of my life. I regard them as just as valid as books or plays in terms of an intellectual property.
All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.
The valid point or a valuable contribution of a deserving person has not been truly appreciated if he is respected equally with those people who only desire but don’t actually deserve to be applauded.
It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.
I think most athletes want to be told when they make a mistake. They don't want to be coddled. They can deal with criticism, especially when it's valid.
Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.
The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
But concepts around how a team functions, the importance of the relationship between football and the person, how you develop both, are always valid.
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
I wholeheartedly believe that same-sex couples have as valid a relationship with their partner as do heterosexuals. I also believe that in the eyes of the state, we all deserve to be treated equally.
Other than vaccines and finding a cure, most funding goes toward putting people on treatment. That's completely valid and I understand that, but it's never how we're going to stop AIDS.
If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good.
The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.
Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.
The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation.
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.
I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.
Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.
Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Under well-settled legal principles, lethal force against a valid military objective, in an armed conflict, is consistent with the law of war and does not, by definition, constitute an 'assassination.'
It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.
Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation.
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