- At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
- Women’s health needs to be front and center – it often isn’t, but it needs to be.
- I don’t like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it’s good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
- The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
- The government’s War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
- The working men, I’ll go by and they’ll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, ‘Oh, it’s a girl. She’s got blond hair and she’s not out of shape,’ and then they say, ‘Gosh, it’s Marilyn Monroe!’
- For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
- Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
- Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
- But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.
- So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I’ve got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.
- If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples even though some of them still look down on me.
- My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
- Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
- They weren’t impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.
- Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.
- God will never give you anything you can’t handle, so don’t stress.
- If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
- Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
- Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.
- The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
- My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
- We’ve all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it’s not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.
- If I don’t get food in my mouth, I’m still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don’t get arrested for indecent exposure, I’m happy. I’m worried about keeping my hair, not how it’s combed.
- Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what’s more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?
- The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.
- Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That’s living your dream.
- Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.
- A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you’ve got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don’t have that hunger.
- Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
- I have my own strength.
- I ain’t got much education, but I got some sense.
- I have amazing people around me. I couldn’t be in a better place. I’m grateful for my life and where I’m at. I never thought I could be in the position that I’m in.
- There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war – nothing material or ideological – no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
- The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
- When I was growing up, I thought I’d be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.
- I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.
- This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
- Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
- We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.