Well, I think that Catholicism’s basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it’s between you and God, not you and the Church.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one’s head as a designer.
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.
I know that it isn’t just violence against women, it’s how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It’s a bigger picture.
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
If you’re asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
There’s always something to suggest that you’ll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.
My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.
I like the personality of the Belgians. They’re deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design – terrific.
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man’s face right after he has learned of his wife’s death?
I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can’t.
In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.
When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don’t want to step on any mines.
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y’know, ‘What does your dad do for a living?’ So I said ‘He helps women get pregnant!’ They called my mom and they were like, ‘What exactly does your husband do?’
One of the things I like best about ‘Biggest Loser’ is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there’s no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that’s inspiring to me.
I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don’t think it didn’t happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don’t sell internationally.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
There’s the issue of hunger, and there’s an issue of if you’re going to cut out food programs. We should be focusing on healthy food. Right now, fruits and vegetables are very expensive. So what can we do on the policy side to bring the cost of fruits and vegetables down?
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the ’70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the ’80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the ’90s. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music?
A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty’s sake and pulls it down to earth.
When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it’s very had to find a good place to eat.
Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I’ll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn’t happen very often.
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
But, on another level it’s really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
I feel there’s a power in theatre, but it’s an indirect power. It’s like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can’t afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.
Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills – the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life – the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.