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I don’t always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven’t seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I’m obliged to see them.
Attitude is everything. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
We don’t receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ when things are tough.
If you let society and your peers define who you are, you’re the less for it.
Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
When you look at Michael Jackson, there’s nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they’d tell him he didn’t have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael’s been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him.
Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.
Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said ‘God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn’t the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.
A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
Sometimes, being alone is the best medicine.
I’m sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.
Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers – if that’s where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
I think, my generation, it’s hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.
To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back… abandoned.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.
But marriage goes in waves. You’ve got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don’t put the work and the effort into it. You’ve got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.
My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
I don’t really go down one path. I wouldn’t call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn’t put myself into any organized faith.
People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they’re 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It’s always good to flirt with him. It’s a great sport.
My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
It’s a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
In my mind I’m a blind man doin’ time.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
It’s not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you’re going to put your body through and having to do it. We don’t have days off.
When I do retire, I know for a fact that I’ll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I get when I’m driving an F1 car.
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn’t pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven’t come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.