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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it.
Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn’t have to come in contact with it.
I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
I’ve sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV’s most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format – two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle – a battle for the psychological advantage.
I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.
I will stay in the car until the last minute that I’m going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.
Don’t trust the heart, it wants your blood.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don’t have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don’t have access to good health care.
There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.
I don’t know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.
For a good workout, I go to At One Fitness in North Hollywood, where my trainer, Jon Allsop, puts me through it all. I like it because it’s a small gym and I’ve known the people for a long time. Jon will have me do cross-training where I’ll lift weights, jump rope, throw around a medicine ball and I never get to stop.
The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
I’m interested to go other places, I’ve been the boy in the bubble since we’ve been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.
People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry – it’s some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
I’m not a big sports fan.
The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.
China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.
If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
I’ve always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt – all this can do more for a child’s well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn’t see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn’t tell people.
We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don’t deserve it. It doesn’t matter if they’re family or if you’ve known them forever. If they’re not good for you, they’ve got to go.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.
I’ve been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we – architects – can effect the quality of life of the people.
The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.
I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.
You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody’s gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.