It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money better jobs.
I feel like I've never had a home you know? I feel related to the country to this country and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place a place where you can reckon with yourself.
My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
I believe that if you're healthy you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
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.
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had with a lot of groups that use humor people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.
A girl phoned me the other day and said 'Come on over there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.
People need dreams there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have hostility is not from God bitterness unforgiveness all of these are attacks from Satan.
There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.
I can jog but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness but to me there's a huge difference between jogging and running.
Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
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.
Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.
A woman should be home with the children building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more that everyone's given up.
While a case can be made for intelligent design I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.
Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
If you don't know the blues there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
I would like to see more airplay for all artists no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.
Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.
People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.
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.
Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife your tolerance level goes down and you realize that with someone much younger there's nothing really to talk about.
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.
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
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 trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really really hard and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.
Getting married for me was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release that we have something more important than our separate selves and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager especially and especially in the society we live in.
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.
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.
When love is gone there's always justice. And when justice is gone there's always force. And when force is gone there's always Mom. Hi Mom!
I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that.
If at first you don't succeed try try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really really hard and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.