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I’ve been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.
It’s horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn’t bring them the happiness they think it will.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
I’m in that comfortable niche where I’m not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you’re real famous you need to do that but I’m not that famous so I don’t need that kind of barrier.
We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.
You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Don’t corral me, and I’ll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Sports is like rock ‘n’ roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I’m getting older, I realized that I’m walking even closer with my God.
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
There can be no truce between science and religion.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
I think women get caught up too much in having a plan – ‘I’m going to get married at this age I’m going to have a kid at this age’ – and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don’t want my life to be based on that.
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn’t get hit by a bus.
I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don’t sing in the shower, maybe its because that’s the one time I don’t need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I’m just, you know, jibber jabber.
I really enjoy theater. I just went to see ‘Death of a Salesman,’ and it knocked me on my ass.
Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn’t seem like it’s any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I’ve spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.
There’s a rule of thumb in politics. If you’re at a point where you’re complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that’s probably a sign that you’re losing.
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
Well, especially now I come to realize – and then – I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I’d record for hours and hours until it’s time to go to sleep.
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.