I love fried okra. The fact that it's okra makes me feel like it's good for you - I forget the fact that it's fried.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room.
Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps... People don't understand that when you want to make a big dream you have a lot of fastidious little things you have to do.
Your child is happy. What else could you want?
I'm no financial expert. I scarcely know what a coin is. Ask me to explain what a credit default swap is, and I'll emit an unbroken 10-minute 'um' through the clueless face of a broken puppet. You might as well ask a pantomime horse.
So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Even if you have just half an hour, you can get a good workout. So I try to make it count no matter where I am.
I am a person that when I go in the street, everybody knows me and goes: 'Oh, you are entering politics.' I want to do something positive for the future. It doesn't mean to become a leader of a party.
Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.
You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.
I'm doing what every guy in America has secretly fantasized - being a Chippendales dancer and having women throw themselves at you.
If you believe in yourself anything is possible.
They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'
In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side.
The world is awaiting your gift - all you have to do is show up with the right intention!
Sometimes you win by losing.
I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.
Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.
Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.
You have to remember, when someone hurts you, that you are so much more than what they took from you.
The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
You throw the kitchen sink at your early books. You put everything in there. It's like when you meet a new girlfriend or boyfriend, you tell them all your best stories. By the time you have been married for 10 years, they are crying, 'Shut up!'
When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.
After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some.
If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that's death. That's instant death.
I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.
You got to learn when to be the bigger person, especially in the entertainment business.
I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.
If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.
If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses.
