In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.
My previous visits to Australia created fantastic memories, so I'm definitely looking forward to another visit. It is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. I think every person in the entire country is nice. Seriously, I haven't seen or heard of a mean person yet. And they love country music.
Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
I think when you get interested in antiques, the most frustrating thing is that books don't have enough photos. When you go to a flea market or garage sale, you see lots of things you've never seen before and you have no idea what the price is going to be or should be.
I really love horror novels, horror films, that are pointing at deeper ideas and thematic meaning. It's a way of thinking about films differently; that's what I think I like the most about it. I love the fact that's it's pointing at a more mysterious world - that the world is more of a mysterious place than we tend to let ourselves believe.
The iPad is far and away the most successful product in its category.
I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.
And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.
Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.
If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
It's true that most people in the trans community don't have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don't think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning.
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.
So basically it's very simple: to start with, if you want to win the match, you shouldn't be afraid of him. There are still many, many things to do, but above all this is the most important: Don't be scared of him!
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.
I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.
While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.
Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most of them, if they're being honest, will tell you that they don't want to be working for me. They want to have their own place. And I think that's great.
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.
Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration.
Our experience is that most entrepreneurs are able to attract debt, even for risky and early stage investments. There are investors who provide debt, but very few who fund through equity.
I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
We fear the thing we want the most.
I don't like to know exactly what I'm going to do in a scene, because the most interesting moments as an audience member are moments of truthful spontaneity.
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
