I haven't always been good at flirting, but I've learned that flirting is all about confidence. I don't think it's about being sexy at all; it's just about having enough confidence to walk up to somebody and have a conversation with them.
It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of the two leaders: Obama on this score has so far been disappointing; the early signs are that Xi is a highly confident leader who thinks big.
In the past few years, we've been doing amazing stuff with desserts. Pastry chefs have been using herbs and spices in their desserts. So vanilla cake doesn't have to be just vanilla, it can have a little thyme. Or you could have a custard with a little lavender in it, which is just amazing.
Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
I don't think much. I'm just going to keep doing what I've been doing. Adjust on the fly if I have to.
I think 40 is a good age to run a country. But I've always been fast.
More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.
It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.
We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.
Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
The Latinos were doing the five-name thing long before celebrities made it cool. We've been doing things like Antonio Ricardo Luis Raoul Hector Rivera for a while now.
I've been trying to put weight on my whole life, and I've been able to do it.
Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.
You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.
Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres.
I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.
I grew up in Texas City, Texas. I didn't know anybody who was a director or whose parents or grandparents were directors. I met somebody from a nearby town one time whose father had been to the moon - it was far more likely to be an astronaut than it was to be a writer or a director.
Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world.
I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me.
I've been very lucky - I've worked consistently, and I haven't had to kiss a lot of people on stage.
I have been married twice, but both of my wives have been too bright to be sucked in by women's lib.
As an artist, I've been very fortunate.
There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?
I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.
I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.
I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
The kids say golf taught them this and that. I get it with the military: A guy joins the military because he needs discipline and has to find himself. But don't tell me, 'Golf helps you find yourself.' I've been playing my whole life, and I'm still looking for myself.
