Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself more in roles emotionally.
So let's find a way to protect people differently than Obamacare, because Obamacare's answer was, 'Just make everybody pay more'.
The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.
My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn't frightening, it was more exhilarating.
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
In equities, you price the risk. As far as debt is concerned, if the markets get more sophisticated where, for the levels of risks that you take, you get the debt returns, we will certainly look at it. It's back to a philosophy of risk-adjusted returns.
In 1967, I signed up for the Army, where I earned an equivalency diploma, then went on to join the Special Forces. That was really was the turning point in my life. I became more disciplined and focused. I went overseas and was in combat, got wounded a couple of times, lost a lot of good friends but matured a great deal.
I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
I've always said if I had to pinpoint what's more important in a scary movie, the soundscape or the visuals, I'd pick the sound.
As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
In one of my songs, I say fame is nothing more than loving someone. So I'm grateful every day that there's so many fans of people out there that love my music and feel they're connected to me through that.
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.
I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light.
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.
The view outside was much more important than the exhibits.
Increased jobs are the consequence of increased trade. Increasing jobs more than output implies a fall in productivity and standards of living. That surely cannot be our goal.
The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility.
As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.
I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.
Now it seems like a lot more people recognize me.
Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
Biomedical research is only as good as its delivery. Distribution of medicines by charities is no more than a stopgap.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
I couldn't imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.
The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.
But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.
The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduces the financial incentive of stressed borrowers to remain in their homes.
I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that's like - everyone is a person.
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.
