Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.

There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible, ' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

Cowboy movies aren't supposed to be in vogue. I still like them. You know, I'm still out there pitching the hell out of them.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

Love doesn't need to be doubted, tested or proven... it's meant to be shown, shared, and nurtured. Find your strength in love.