Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.
I remember the first time I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video. I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain's face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But I couldn't see his face. When I finally did see him he was even cuter than I imagined!
After I had the Caesarean I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.
I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did which was work in an office.
If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history then for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right by other people as well as myself that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.
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.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
And now this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.
I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did which was work in an office.
Looking back I have this to regret that too often when I loved I did not say so.
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex and at a certain age I did that. But I'm past that age.
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 mean I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.
My parents were really really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12 I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society' so we moved to New York for the run of that.
I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years from 14 to 34.
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father meeting my husband and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
I have been dairy free for several years and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies which it did and help me lose weight which it did.
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
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.
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.
I met Woz when I was 13 at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was like the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.
Sure I played did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health I did it for the health of the chickens.
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father or like me?
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
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.
I chose my wife as she did her wedding gown for qualities that would wear well.
Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures.
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes I had one thousand and sixty.
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.
It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto which is: Don't worry be happy feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
In the information age you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
What we did not imagine was a Web of people but a Web of documents.
I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.
My family knew but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.
A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite the male ego.
I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.
Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession problems in mortgage markets the problems in the banking sector the problems in government finance in countries like Greece none of those problems were in present Canada.
Well I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger which I think without flattering myself I did but I think I certainly have as George Orwell says people do after a certain age the face they deserve.
People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger which I think without flattering myself I did but I think I certainly have as George Orwell says people do after a certain age the face they deserve.