I once took a ride to the beach in L.A., and all along the shore there were all these so-called jazz places. And I saw these college guys and session players playing this fusion Muzak stuff. It was just a lot of notes, and the more notes they played, the more it kept them from expressing anything. So I came back home and got out my Zeppelin albums.
As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.
Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.
I adore Jane Lynch, so just to get the opportunity to work with her was phenomenal.
I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.
To me I've just really, really found a relaxed, peaceful side of my life and I'm enjoying it.
Millennials easily connect the dots between good education and good opportunities, and they also understand that it isn't just hard work that determines how well a child will be educated - it also depends on where they live and the resources their parents commit to their education.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.
Just build your brand from day one, man. Your brand is your name, basically. A lot of people don't know that they need to build their brand, your brand is what keeps you moving.
In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.
I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.
There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture and exploring faith, if you will, in a very real way. The more you delve into it and give into it, you just have to have faith. The more you invest in faith, wherever it takes you, some of those jagged edges become less sharp.
In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.
I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.
I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and how I wanted to play. I knew everything, it just had to be developed.
A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.
I just think the best way for me to be greedy is long-term greedy.
Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.
I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them.
I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.
I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be the best surfer I can be. It's not all about competing and being the best. It's more about having fun and just doing what you love.
I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate with.
Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
We are all human, and mistakes are just around the corner, but experience lets you try to avoid them.
But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling.
It's pretty weird when you are just touring all the time and you don't have a normal life. You're out of touch with reality too much.
I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.
You've just got to earn my respect.
Pity is just another form of abuse.
It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people.
I think I ended up on 'People's '50 Most Beautiful People' list just because of eyeliner, which is kind of a bummer. But if you do find the right color, it will make your eyes pop.
I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.
