The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother if it is both he is twice blessed indeed.
I played teen roles until high definition came out and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.
I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me and it will always be a part of my parenting to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.
In my cranky old age I actually prefer recording alone now on 'The Simpsons' for example because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times when I record with a group I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry agriculture energy and transportation - essential as they are make people sick and die.
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case a suffragette who had never married. After her death he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
I love doing normal things - movies shopping going out with friends writing reading taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame a little less than his share of the credit.
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is of course living in a state of sin.
To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning not as something to celebrate.
Folks the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking letting yourself go.
My father was not a failure. After all he was the father of a president of the United States.
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion misery and death.
We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat and the dog was walking.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
Trust no friend without faults and love a woman but no angel.
Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.
Some say that the age of chivalry is past that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Well I actually first got into music as a small child and as I became a teen I sought out making money from music weather that was singing lounge gigs backup in studios or weddings.
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can the money will come.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it you've got to start young.
I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards but that's not the case. Sure my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16 but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine' 'X Men' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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.
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change and that is all there is to say about money.
I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100000 in one day in a posh boutique.
To be successful a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
In a spiritually sensitive culture then it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move the world.
Because of my father we are that Shining City on a Hill.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions you get the result.
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours I must look her straight in the eyes.
If you only have a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
It seems a fantastic paradox but it is nevertheless a most important truth that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
Personally I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Switzerland is a small steep country much more up and down than sideways and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
As far as hypnosis is concerned I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Design works if it's authentic inspired and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.
No matter how old we become we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
For me singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light out of the darkness.
Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home goes to an all-white school and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
On the battlefield the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation let it be our pledge that when they return home we leave no veteran behind.
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
But friendship is precious not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
I cannot say who precisely came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
A man's country is not a certain area of land of mountains rivers and woods but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life is what keeps me moving forward.
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party and I'm thinking 'Hey I've still got it.'
We the People recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me a freedom without a commitment to others a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism is unworthy of our founding ideals and those who died in their defense.
Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden a dim twilight and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.
When you are young and healthy it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children.
Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
I really think we should pass a law in every state I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job or a roof over their head or the care that they need when they come home.
Like most people I can be lazy so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike swim and run and I love to play soccer.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster a great brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Without a family man alone in the world trembles with the cold.
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Do not trust all men but trust men of worth; the former course is silly the latter a mark of prudence.
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away.
I was doing a children's book on self-esteem and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.
A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience the better design we will have.
Never think that war no matter how necessary nor how justified is not a crime.
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course if you dig deeper it's really how it works.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum play a kazoo and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs once launched never disappear. Actually a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest but when they told me I could never have sex not even on my birthday I changed my mind.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.
I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.
All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts his acts being seven ages.
Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
You know the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.
If you don't have a valentine hang out with your girlfriends don't go looking for someone. When it's right they'll come to you.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
I've always loved 3D. In fact as a kid I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.
You see Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa and if we're honest conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
The typewriting machine when played with expression is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
For a successful technology reality must take precedence over public relations for Nature cannot be fooled.
One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace more about killing that we know about living.
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like although that was part of it. Primarily it was how it worked. To design something really well you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something chew it up not just quickly swallow it.
Design in art is a recognition of the relation between various things various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it in the fourth dimension. That is with your blood and your bones as well as with your eyes.
I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.
Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.
I'm dating a woman now who evidently is unaware of it.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired so long as we can see far enough.
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources which must be preserved at all cost.
Learning is a result of listening which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words to learn from the child we must have empathy and empathy grows as we learn.
If you listen to your fears you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because if Europe comes apart the E.U. comes apart then you're going to have enormous impact on America that's a very big trading partner of ours and people own securities around the world in this day and age.
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars would sign over half to me and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
To me photography is the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second of the significance of an event.
When I was going for my graduate degree I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'
I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test which I would not have been able to do.
I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
Without tradition art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation it is a corpse.
I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.
Never say never but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness a tender look which becomes a habit.
You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.
I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations of arts and of sciences.
If we had any nerve at all if we had any real balls as a society or whatever you need whatever quality you need real character we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society righteously.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
The central conservative truth is that it is culture not politics that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry does that not indicate something about your size?
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion a screwball can be a pitch or a person stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
At my age no one is married no one has kids no one has a career.
History is a relentless master. It has no present only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of we have a special face for each friend.
I went to college at the University of Kansas where I got a degree in political science.
A woman has to be intelligent have charm a sense of humor and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
Even if a unity of faith is not possible a unity of love is.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends never lose a chance to make them.
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
Marriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two.
Men of age object too much consult too long adventure too little repent too soon and seldom drive business home to the full period but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain comedy and tragedy humor and hurt.
My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently we must be willing to change our belief system let the past slip away expand our sense of now and dissolve the fear in our minds.
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people but I wanted to act.
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Make a Goal Box a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the leader is a servant.
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage to put together a family and a home.
In America I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.
Experience has taught me when I am shaving of a morning to keep watch over my thoughts because if a line of poetry strays into my memory my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness and so frivolous is he that though full of a thousand reasons for weariness the least thing such as playing billiards or hitting a ball is sufficient enough to amuse him.
I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
For my confirmation I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.
Rest is not idleness and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day listening to the murmur of the water or watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means a waste of time.
Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day so you don't overeat.
There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Even though I didn't get a business degree I enjoyed learning about economics.
I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now when I have more time I function the same way: if it's writing time I write.
Always end the name of your child with a vowel so that when you yell the name will carry.
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession education hours worked age marital status and children men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions like nursing dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
Certainly travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on deep and permanent in the ideas of living.
I am not a great cook I am not a great artist but I love art and I love food so I am the perfect traveller.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time you've created a special little thing and that's what I'm looking for because if you get pompous you lose everything.
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
I grew up in the world of bad television on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.
Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
That's a big goal of mine to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them the teacher is the most important.
I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
I dropped out of school for a semester transferred to another college switched to an art major graduated got married and for a while worked as a graphic designer.
We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst and then we enter depression? Well some things are not different.
I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion a screwball can be a pitch or a person stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
Beauty n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
I started on an Apple II which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4500 a year and I spent half of it on the computer.
And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15 which is quite late.
There is only one kind of love but there are a thousand imitations.
I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while it wouldn't be sustainable for me and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.
Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent single-parent cohabiting homes.
I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that too. But that one felt all right.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Gee I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers I can barely log on!
Women may not have it easy but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until perhaps she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict every experience and learn from it. Life is never dull.
We tend to think of age only in time but I don't think it has much to do with time at all; there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
To an adolescent there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
And I think women have come a very very long way but they have a long way to go.
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
Good judgment comes from experience and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education and then if you want to pursue acting go to graduate school.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.
Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme what's behind the emotion the meaning all that comes later.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Well married a person has wings poorly married shackles.
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
Conservative n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Christmas is not a time nor a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill to be plenteous in mercy is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
If I go on a diet and work out I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing why would I do that? I ain't got time for this just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
I guess I was a mom so late in life my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
No no I was only funny on stage really. I I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know when I was a child up to about the age of 12.
My mother worked in factories worked as a domestic worked in a restaurant always had a second job.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site.
I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel he ends by having many acquaintances but no friends.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation a race a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present the more intense that yearning.
I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
Growing up I wanted desperately to please to be a good girl.
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
Whatever you may look like marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades so will his eyesight.
I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades rather than whether someone's 42 or 47 you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
I'll tell you there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again what is soiled is made clean again.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
When you focus on being a blessing God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope by a limit imposed from without but falsely identified as lying within.
Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Believe me my children have more stamina than a power station.
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Inflation is as violent as a mugger as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks mostly sits.
I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.
See what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car aren't you? Well I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of sternness I guess in the way I raise my kids.
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does I guess you do have a problem.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
The timing of death like the ending of a story gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
If you ever become a mother can I have one of the puppies?
We need somebody who's got the heart the empathy to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I of course used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.
It was a time when only the dead smiled happy in their peace.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
When I find myself in the company of scientists I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
The wedding took place in Vermont where they have legalized gay civil unions and I married a woman.
I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors officials the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Music has always been my protection against the world from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.
One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education academia the service industry arts publishing theater politics fashion finance as well as movie-making.
When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood the best in a marriage the kind of people we are trying to become.
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer but my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65 you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise you are just existing.
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.
There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
One of the tough things about being an actor probably the hardest thing is getting your foot in the door and my father handled that for me at a very early age.
Architecture is not an inspirational business it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth but it's only money they don't know how to enjoy it because they have no imagination.
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.
Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into.
As a physician I know many doctors want to utilize new technology but they find the cost prohibitive.
On my wedding day. I didn't want a natural blushing-bride look - I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look so even though I had the white dress I had pink net underneath.
Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
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'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are you aren't.
We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Personally I just think rap music is the best thing out there period. If you look at my deck in my car radio you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy that's all I live that's all I listen to that's all I love.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.