The higher the rate, the more interest there is in avoiding the tax. Either you move or you shift your profits overseas, as American corporations have proven very good at doing.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.

A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.

In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that.

Moderation leads to Mediocrity, Intensity leads to Excellence.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.

Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.

I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects.

That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.