The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.
As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it’s a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.
In my experience, it’s not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.
If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn’t have to advertise them.
Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you’re not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.
I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.
I don’t allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
We’d be working in our motel room through the night, and I’d come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he’d start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.
I am a fashion designer. I’m not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I’m a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.
I thought I was attractive when I shot ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding.’ Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.
To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.
I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
Watching President Obama apologize last week for America’s arrogance – before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans – helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
By making a comeback, I’m changing the attitude of people toward me. If I’d known that people would react so enthusiastically, I’d have done it years ago.
We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.
It was really amazing. I mean, he’d never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
I definitely love that all these car brands are coming out with hybrid forms of every car that they have. It’s very awesome because I think it does make a difference, and it doesn’t hurt that you save a lot of money on gas.
I like the personality of the Belgians. They’re deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design – terrific.
A lot of movies were influenced by ‘Logan’s Run,’ like ‘Minority Report’. A lot of films have those elements in them.
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
I’ve been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
I make movies that nobody will see. I’ve made movies that even I have never seen.
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government.