The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel.
I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.
I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
The iPhone will maybe become more of a video-conferencing experience - you pick up your phone, you answer it, you'll be talking to someone looking at their face.
Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?
Award ceremonies are strange because you're sitting next to someone you've never met; you're celebrating with a total stranger.
You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.
I always cringe when people tell me they don't eat breakfast, as though that's a good thing. Eek! You have to start the day off with something in your stomach to get your metabolism active. Also, the mental game of 'holding out,' not eating for as long as possible, at least for me, was a really unhealthy mental place.
Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.
If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.
I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.
The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
It was my great problem to solve: how to write a book, you know. And after you write one, you have to write another to prove to yourself you can do it again.
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
The Internet has really democratized ideas. There are no real gatekeepers any more, because if you have a great idea, and you put it online, people will find it and it will get in front of who it needs to get in front of.
I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.
When you think about how everything else works in the digital age and the way that money does, money really falls short.
I think what's really important is to challenge yourself. You can very easily fall into the rut of, 'We know it works! We'll use that old chestnut.'
We had doubles for some of the stuff but a lot of it had to do with there's certain hours that you can dive and then you can't dive for another certain, like 12 hours just for the air and stuff.
There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'
I'm thinking that a boy would just be easier to take care of, you know? You don't have to worry about the weaves and the lipsticks and that kinda stuff.
I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.
It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.
If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.
You grew up with America on the TV, and you think you know a place before you get there, and you have this idea of it in your head.
Yeah, well that's the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you're in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you're in it and they get short of breath.
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.
