Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
John Lithgow

If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
Abdurrahman Wahid

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
Val Kilmer

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.
Gordon Getty

I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
Andy Summers

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.
Douglas Wood

I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.
Neil Schon

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.
Al Kaline

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.
Armistead Maupin

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.
William Friedkin

Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.
Jack Kilby

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.
John M. Ford

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
Rich Lowry

Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.
Maureen Reagan

Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.
Virginia Foxx

Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.
George Martin

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
Mark Strand

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
Cameron Crowe

I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing.
Bob Beauprez

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
Campbell Scott