And Quotes
In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
I would rather be on a roller coaster life going through hell and back to appreciate the glory instead of having it all at once.
A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.
I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive, and it loves me. Coffee and tea and the Java and me, A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup.
It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.
Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and money.
I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That's really what I crave, and I always have done.
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.
Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.
Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.
Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.
Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.
For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.
Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.
It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.
In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.'
Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?
You have to be as light as you can be and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to always be trying to elevate somehow.
Few needs are more pressing, or more deserving of our attention, than taking care of the men and women of the U.S. armed forces.
Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
I'm an actor. I'm not a performer. I'm not like a song and dance guy who can take a cane and a hat and do it. I would just you know. That's why I never did commercials.
Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.
You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
Position yourself as a center of influence, the one who knows the movers and shakers. People will respond to that, and you'll soon become what you project.
In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.
Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.
I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.
Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.