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I’ve always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
The greatest power is often simple patience.
There’s a lot of stress… but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.
I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can’t. My attitude is always ‘let it keep rolling.’
The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.
Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn’t happen.
The film is not a success until it makes money. It’s only good when there’s a dollar figure attached to the box office.
I don’t have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.
I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
I’ve stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.
There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it’s time to really look at the future and not at the past.
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don’t.
To rule one’s anger is well to prevent it is better.
I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
No, I love Montreal… I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me… I love the food there.
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
Our hope, and it’s a sad hope, is that… well, I mean we need a tip. That’s why we have such a big reward. We just hope that someone is holding her for her child and that we can, you know, get her back with a tip.
Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don’t have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can’t write songs, no problem – simply steal one and change it to your taste.
I’ve had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.
I don’t ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I’m not a romantic really.
It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories.
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
I think that in the future, clocks won’t say three o’clock anymore. They’ll just get right to the point and rename three o’clock ‘Pepsi.’
Sleep more at night. If it’s allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You’ll be amazed at how much better you’ll feel.
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments.
I’ve heard that, but since I’m computer illiterate I don’t know how it all works. But since I’m on Prodigy tonight, I’m learning a lot through my typist, Peter.
Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn’t know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?
I’ve published one book before, and now I’m writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.
There is always time for failure.
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
If I want to get work done, that’s usually about 3 in the morning.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.
I’m living out my dreams and I love what I do.
My main goal is to stay healthy because when you’re injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.