The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.
The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.
People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed.
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.
I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.
I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.
Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.
I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.
Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers.
Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.
Getting to wear Chanel is my version of a fairy tale. Not that I would wear it every day - my style is more jeans and T-shirts - but it's kind of fun.
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.
Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.
People aren't taking their time with the music no more. There's less quality in the records.
There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts at health reform are a useful reminder.
I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.
One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad, and shared their ideas for how to build a more equal and prosperous country. I always felt part of their call to serve and part of my father's journey.
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic. I have a bad nerve in the back of my eye.
In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.
The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.
I would serve a selection of cakes, scones, and small sandwiches for afternoon tea. High tea is usually served between 5 P.M. and 6 P.M., replacing an evening meal - it is more substantial.
Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.
