In truth I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her too. And so Krishna is parented by me but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film or art but as movies something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting the 1960's and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
In fact technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death the pain is over. Yeah I guess it is a friend.
If I felt in the event of a royal wedding inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't I'd ignore it.
At a certain point I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
Holding on to anger resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert gentle and discriminating friends who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
I am not a scientist. I am rather an impresario of scientists.
It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one too was made out of chaos.
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there in a car.
Dreams will get you nowhere a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.
I think that clearly it has an influence to be coming of age during the punk rock era to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background to have been in and out of such chaos I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.
American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car they calculate everything: the speed the distance But in Hong Kong we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
When I was 18 I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21 I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government no legislature has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it with very old people.
Feels good to try but playing a father I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get the younger their new wives get.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but if so it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door and this dragon is religion.
I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart like a drawing that a child does.
I have been in teen shows for years so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
A dream without ambition is like a car without gas you're not going anywhere.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body but can never be so in mind.
Money can't buy you happiness but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.
A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene and I loved creating those but I never really had great stories to string them together.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.
I'm doing 'Les Miserables' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like 'Come on let's do a moviemusical.'
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth and I am a citizen of the world.
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30 why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language that goes to his heart.
In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
Faith to my mind is a stiffening process a sort of mental starch.
Reason is a crutch for age but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
My father was grounded a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
I hated every minute of training but I said 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty the ocean does not become dirty.
Every contrivance of man every tool every instrument every utensil every article designed for use of each and every kind evolved from a very simple beginnings.
What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied if the stuff is getting stale if the shelf isn't right or if the offerings aren't right it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.
For the past 33 years I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row I know I need to change something.
The world of men is dreaming it has gone mad in its sleep and a snake is strangling it but it can't wake up.
I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
I was taught from a young age that I had to serve so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs my kidneys my liver my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because and I am not making this up he had a pet cat.
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States they have not had one since Lincoln.
When your time comes to die be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
A single rose can be my garden a single friend my world.
In this age which believes that there is a short cut to everything the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is in the long run the easiest.
This world of ours must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate and be instead a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
Liking money like I like it is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
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Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants one unexpected event crashing into another with no pattern or reason and then you finally reach a point around my age where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.
There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
I'm a fun father but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Follow your dreams work hard practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
I inherited that calm from my father who was a farmer. You sow you wait for good or bad weather you harvest but working is something you always need to do.
With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder with a dash of the dictionary.
Punishment is now unfashionable because it creates moral distinctions among men which to the democratic mind are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
I wanted to do two things when I was growing up about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over and that is what I am doing now.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number to the specialist of an enlightened matter to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Until women learn to want economic independence and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood it seems to me feminism has no roots.
We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
A man marries to have a home but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
The man who has done his level best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.
What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.
It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.
Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
All of us grow up in particular realities - a home family a clan a small town a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born or we are peripherally aware of it.
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And of course sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed those who are cold and are not clothed.
Don't get me wrong I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own including a trendy mountain style and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.
Each friend represents a world in us a world not born until they arrive and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
As a governor I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
I come from that society and there is a common thread specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family and the unconditional love for one's children.
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future or a different past.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do you will never cease to grow.
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
I wanted to be a teacher. I love children so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven when I opened my mouth and said 'Oh God what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator our very self-consciousness is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical questioning and often angry patriotism.
My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love drunk or running for office.
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
As a father my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.
Like a welcome summer rain humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth the air and you.
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough it loses all of its meaning.
I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in whether you can be an accountant lawyer or nurse for example.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach for the most part.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Jackie Robinson as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality he was exemplary.
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
I wake up in the morning I do a little stretching exercises pick up the horn and play.
I spent a lot of time not in school so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
Give a little love to a child and you get a great deal back.
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially people would question but once patriotism got stirred up the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
In every society in human history including the United States those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
Art has to move you and design does not unless it's a good design for a bus.
Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way or a film design that is different but expensive.
You can't say civilization don't advance in every war they kill you in a new way.
If you want to change attitudes start with a change in behavior.
I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean 90 is the new 70; 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.
And so our goal on health care is if we can get instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year it's going up at the level of inflation maybe just slightly above inflation we've made huge progress. And by the way that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
I don't look my age I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
As a private lawyer I could bill $750 an hour but I don't.
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life choose a sense of humor.
I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.
Personally I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband I figure she'll fool me.
I don't know if you can change things but it's a drop in the ocean.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her I'd also be marrying her former life her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
Business is never so healthy as when like a chicken it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work a company work a society work a civilization work.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Usually when people are sad they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry they bring about a change.
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy we think to be loyal to a family and clan whose blood is in your own veins.
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love a little affection a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house that's what it means.
Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
To say that a work of art is good but incomprehensible to the majority of men is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally in the end pleasure.
No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties like all the Royals he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed if anything a lot older in his attitudes.
This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty you've had it in this country.
Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery who gets older and older still playing opposite young ladies but it doesn't work the other way around.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while you don't do things right once in a while you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately so is losing.
Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
The Establishment center has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
You show your vulnerability through relationships and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.
The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it don't eat it.
I used to want to be a lawyer but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
A musician must make music an artist must paint a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
I choose my friends for their good looks my acquaintances for their good characters and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Potentially a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
When freedom does not have a purpose when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women when it does not listen to the voice of conscience it turns against humanity and society.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal or in other words a meddling government a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end the poem is not a thing we see-it is rather a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
By our Heavenly Father and only because of God only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and as I call them fights and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
Rejoicing in our joy not suffering over our suffering makes someone a friend.
When a thought takes one's breath away a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Crave for a thing you will get it. Renounce the craving the object will follow you by itself.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.
You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
For all of those willing to help me start a family I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.
Even though I'm not a competitive athlete I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
If all the economists were laid end to end they'd never reach a conclusion.
I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward he will look forward with the work.
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him "At my age I don't even buy green bananas."
I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.
We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.
Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle love is a war; love is a growing up.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins or nearly all save those worth committing.
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive but I have photographs of her.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.
Gay marriage is the last bastion of to me as a legal ceremonial sentimental and religious side it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps like not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
Everybody wants you to do good things but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry have children and go to their football games.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them however has not changed.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort all of us to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables but there is more.
A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender but you don't have a top for it.
I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.
I was very successful from a very early age and I want to keep it.
Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue and that for me is based on insecurity self-esteem and loneliness.
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him "At my age I don't even buy green bananas."
There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America but I remember as being a very very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Traveling you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities places exchange their form order distances a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.
Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.
Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless of course you happen to be a bottle of wine.
It's not what you pay a man but what he costs you that counts.
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
If you can build a business up big enough it's respectable.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
For the merchant even honesty is a financial speculation.
I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college but I'd done them because it was fun.
Life is a dream for the wise a game for the fool a comedy for the rich a tragedy for the poor.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are we must know our mothers names.
Of all the roles I've played none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
In computing turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks they are always locking three.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.
Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other and both together make up one whole.
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand they do less easily move against him believing that he has the gods on his side.
Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age I'm actually overweight.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
A mind at peace a mind centered and not focused on harming others is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Whether one believes in a religion or not and whether one believes in rebirth or not there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
I really believe that everyone has a talent ability or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Environmental degradation overpopulation refugees narcotics terrorism world crime movements and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home and broods a nest of sorrows.
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil and there a plant may take it up again in time sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
A dying man needs to die as a sleepy man needs to sleep and there comes a time when it is wrong as well as useless to resist.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask What's wrong with him how much will it cost and when can I pick him up?
In less enlightened times the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
I prefer younger men. In some ways they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time his day his age.
Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.
People who don't travel cannot have a global view all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind your talents the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source you will truly have defeated age.
In order to fix Social Security we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.
I can forgive but I cannot forget is only another way of saying I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
All growth is a leap in the dark a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Sex without love is a meaningless experience but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
If you just watch a teenager you see a lot of uncertainty.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
With age you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
As a medical doctor it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
If my films don't show a profit I know I'm doing something right.
There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger because he's such a great kid.
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health but only itself as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
He's going to be around a long long time if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
I don't take the movies seriously and anyone who does is in for a headache.
It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.
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.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
To err is human but to really foul things up you need a computer.
You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
Back in the mid-1970s we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences and it will be a wide range as it is for 'Twilight' it's a pretty wide range.
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Money can buy you a fine dog but only love can make him wag his tail.
O thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
For every good reason there is to lie there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
From the age of fifteen dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion as a mere sentiment is to me a dream and a mockery.
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
A dog teaches a boy fidelity perseverance and to turn around three times before lying down.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery a metaphor for a proof a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths and oneself for an oracle is inborn in us.
At this point I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums I find in the flight of a good drive.
When one has not had a good father one must create one.
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation we shall find manifest examples of premeditation perseverance resolution and consumate artifice in order to effect their purpose.
Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films you just can't.
There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean this is not just baby gloom.
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
Every single art form is involved in film in a way.
And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.
I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.
Be a sinner and sin strongly but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Living in an age of advertisement we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day but it changes and withers at a touch.
To me a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man he's made it out of his love for space materials things like that.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Thankfully I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 247 and whom I can trust and depend on.
I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
All the world is birthday cake so take a piece but not too much.
America just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt but people die in plane crashes lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die some get hurt some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
To raise new questions new possibilities to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event and the only way to understand it was to write about it.
I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
Nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a man's character give him power.
High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
The fundamental defect of fathers in our competitive society is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available there will be a big improvement in the situation.
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science environmental management government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
Energy and environmental regulation transportation and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models products and innovation.
'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being if anything bombed out of the Stone Age.