I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.
There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.
Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.
Believe me, you lose more than a gallon of fluids during a race. You could lose between six and 10 pounds during a race, depending on hot it is.
Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.
Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.
To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.
I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.
Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!
As recently as the September 11 event, the majority of Muslims were, as the rest of the world was, against its violence. However, if despair and humiliation continue in the population of more than one billion Muslims, the world will face increasing risks of conflicts and wars.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads.
You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.
Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought.
You know, I think He honestly does care about how we play on the field, more than anything more than win or lose our hearts on the field.
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
