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Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn’t know that at first.
The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother’s wall in her house.
Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Love is such an objective thing. I mean, I can say I love my family, or I love my Diet Coke. So I guess, in different ways, yeah, I do believe in love.
Writing doesn’t come real easy to me. I couldn’t write a novel in a year. It wouldn’t be readable. I don’t let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.
When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it’s a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
I’m pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it’s gonna be learning my lines.
Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
If the experience of science teaches anything, it’s that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.
If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect – if you’re a moderate on abortion, if you’re a moderate on gun control, or if you’re a moderate in your religious faith – it doesn’t evolve into a crusade where you’re either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.
You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that’s not how it is for me. When I’m over 200 pounds, that’s when I’m the most confident version of myself.
I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.
In imagination, there’s no limitation.
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that’s only expedited by ‘Out of sight, out of mind.’ But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It’s a high-class problem, but it’s real.
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
I don’t watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that’s it.
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
I come from an ordinary family – my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker – and we’ve always loved racing together.
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
It’s not my job to dream your dreams. It’s my job to make your dreams become a reality.
Acting can be pretty challenging. I can’t say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
Like Indiana Jones, I don’t like snakes – though that might lead some to ask why I’m in politics.
Black people don’t have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
Art is anything you can get away with.
Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
I’m not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I’d like that too, someday.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Being famous before you’ve formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.
It’s not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, ‘Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.’
You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.
It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.
All is connected… no one thing can change by itself.
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late ’80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He’s a very cool, hip guy. This film, let’s face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he’d find it funny.