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To be misunderstood can be the writer’s punishment for having disturbed the reader’s peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
I joke around a lot about the manic times because they’re funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.
There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You’re cleaning up vomit and it’s 2 in the morning, and you’re wishing there was somebody else there to help you.
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
We’re special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That’s not just my story. That’s your story. That’s our story.
I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.
Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we’re having a good time.
My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.
I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don’t want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It’s what I wanted to do, so we went.
I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.
Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government’s role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?
The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there’s a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
I’ve been married before, but I’ve never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it’s casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic.
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
I’m not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I’ve got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don’t have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn’t matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won’t have that one lucky moment.
Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it’s just as fast.
I don’t think it’s government’s job to find health care for people. I think it’s the individual’s job to find health care.
There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
To be able to sit in Donald Trump’s apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
I mean it’s funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it’s not competitive like an election, it’s the Olympics, it’s not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’
It’s an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous.
Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.
Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.
Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
It’s really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don’t hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don’t do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.
It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.
Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I’ve cut that way back.
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.