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The House has passed several bipartisan bills to ensure all Americans have the opportunity to secure a good job to provide for their families. All of these jobs bills deserve the support of our Senators and a strong show of leadership from the president.
I have had death threats from people with fixations.
I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because… you know. What’s good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that’s the first ingredient for success. Because if you’re a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.
To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
I definitely don’t look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.
It really means a lot that I won the gold medal – but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
I don’t think humor is forced upon my universe it’s a part of it.
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn’t ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
Homey don’t quit. What else are you gonna do? It’s like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it’s over they check the clock and go home. That’s how it goes.
I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you’re going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
Get the best people and train them well.
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
There is an old saying that money can’t buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out.
Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles.
What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more – even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there’s a gender gap.
Well, once you’ve resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you’re past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I’ll do it, you know.
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that – he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad’s advice about first.
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
I would love to have a robot at home.
I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.
Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.
For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it’s not two halves that make a whole – it’s two wholes that make a whole.
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
After my pregnancy, I discovered I have an allergy to yeast. Problem is, all the food I love has yeast in it. So I have to relearn how to cook.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Barack Obama’s enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama’s enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.
Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American – economy, jobs, healthcare, education.
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don’t do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.
My dad used to say, ‘You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,’ and there’s some validity in it. But honestly, even when I’m inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.
The only change I can really see is that I don’t have to shop for pants in stores anymore.
I’m the kind of guy that if I don’t work out, I will get bigger and look like one of the guys who used to play sports.
The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
She can’t even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don’t have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.