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Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny our relationship, that if we would stick together, everything would be okay.
Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don’t choose this.
Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn’t make it.
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
Neutral men are the devil’s allies.
I’m really proud of myself because I’ve pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
I’ve done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.
In New York, I’ll walk down the street and someone will say, ‘Nice show,’ and that’s it. If I’m at a food festival, it’s open season.
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.
Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That’s what’s important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I’m real happy with it.
Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.
Life itself is the proper binge.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I’m not talking about acting or anything like that, I’m talking about people I admire, whether it’s a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
As a Christian, I think it’s really important to find a man of God to trust and be supportive of me.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
I am cursed with computers something always goes wrong.
If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or ‘get rich’ in business by being a conformist.
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas – stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that’s a very sad thing. It’s film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that’s everywhere around the world.
I’ll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I’ll never stop my music.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children’s children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it’s not as predictable, when you don’t know what’s coming at you.
I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.
I have a weird sense of humour. My dad’s the same. We love watching ‘Monty Python’ together.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
I know who my dad is, I’ve met him a few times, but I don’t even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don’t even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn’t bother me because I don’t know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth.
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential – especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you’re a farmer and you’re growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.