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I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness. -- Lucinda Williams
I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it. -- Hugh Masekela
I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others. -- Barry White
In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs. -- Emanuel Cleaver
The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing. -- James Hillman
Power is making a statement about who you are. -- Christina Aguilera
It's making a statement about what life is, really. And I'm going to end the line with it. -- Wayne Shorter
We were iconoclastic. We weren't there to sort of follow the trends really. So it was important that we were making a statement against that. -- Stephen Mallinder
When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson. -- Barack Obama
Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue. -- Stephen King
I don't really like making too much of a statement with what I'm wearing. -- Richard C. Armitage
Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes. -- Steve Earle
For a while, I was only being sent fat-girl parts. Seriously? Sometimes I feel like I'm making some kind of radical statement because I'm a size 6. -- Melanie Lynskey
When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries. -- Javier Bardem
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be. -- Chris Cornell
I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making. -- Nancy Gibbs
I'm making the statement that we should all live life and have a laugh. Nakedness is a thing where people take notice. If you do it in the right way, people laugh. -- Mark Roberts
I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do. -- Malcolm McDowell
We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement. -- Dan Phillips
The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself. -- Louis MacNeice
I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement. -- Raf Simons
A lot of people want to not wear a tie when they go to a restaurant. They feel they don't have to wear a tie. I think it's kind of a statement they're making. I don't know what that statement is. I haven't quite figured that out yet. -- Alec Baldwin
Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that. -- Lizzo
I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an honesty in fiction that's as effective or even more powerful than the honesty of our lives. We can find something that's genuinely true, like a chemistry between people or a statement that speaks to an audience. -- Shane Black
Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures. -- Joel Meyerowitz
Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes. -- Norah Jones
The present indicative asserts something which is occuring while the speaker is making the statement. -- Spiros Zodhiates
I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement... -- Virginia Woolf
Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly. -- Eric Drooker
Making that statement of 'I'm not afraid to be untamed.' It's just kind of the marriage of those two things. -- Jillian Hervey
I don't really step out the house trying to make a fashion statement. I step out the house making sure I'm comfortable. -- Asher Roth
I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else. -- M.I.A.
I'm of the opinion that if you step on stage and you're not a straight white male, you're automatically making a political statement whether you know it or not. -- W. Kamau Bell
I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music. -- Eyvind Kang

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