I try to avoid gaining weight as much as possible because it hinders my performance onstage. Touring demands so much energy.
I'm a mom. That probably hinders sometimes and helps sometimes. To some people, that makes me more approachable.
I love the U.S. military. I want them to be the most effective and the most cost-effective and I think there is so much spending and so much bloat and so much bureaucracy that it actually hinders them from having a lot of the mission accomplishments that they should.
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
I think it is possible to be friends even if you're competing. You know, there's so many guys in rooms that try to psych each other out, and it doesn't work. It only hinders their work.
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
One of our priorities is to have an enabling environment for private investment, both domestic and foreign investment, and that means we are going to officially combat corruption because we believe that this scourge, this illness, hinders our efforts to attract private investors.
The lack of roads in Africa greatly hinders agriculture, education, and development.