"But Madonna doesn't do anything!" Hannah would sometimes say.
"That presupposes that companies don't do anything wrong, but sometimes they do".
I ran 1min 58.4sec and I thought: 'I'm so disappointed to have lost that race.' But I actually thought: 'Come on, you just ran a 1 58.4, you couldn't do anything else.' Sometimes you get satisfaction knowing that you executed your time, prepared well, which is great but you always do have a little doubt in your mind and wonder whether that person achieved the result cleanly.
I think somebody, maybe one of the powers that be, saw the reaction [of the explosion in interest in the idea of Blomkamp directing an Alien movie] and said, 'Hey, we might as well do this, as do anything else.' Sometimes good things come out of partial indifference.
Sometimes bus drivers won't do anything to help you, sometimes they will intervene.
He boarded an El Al plane without protest, disguised as a crew member.Mr Bascomb's understandable distaste for his subject does not prevent him giving a good flavour of Eichmann's slippery arguments once he went on trial: sometimes denying that he did anything wrong, sometimes saying he was only obeying orders, sometimes pleading other extenuating circumstances.
I'll do anything for love and sometimes anything for sexual pleasure.
He presents a 19th-century captain who said that his ship "can do anything but talk, and sometimes she can do even that," and another who "engaged in one-sided conversations with his ship's mizzenmast, asking how much sail she would like to carry".
It does not take much logic to think, "If this was a tree a day ago and an idol today, why do I think it can do anything for me?" Yet sometimes, things would actually happen that people believed was because of their belief in their Idols.
