I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.
I've probably put up with more criticism than a lot of people out there. At the end of the day, you block out everything, especially with your personal life.
I'm what you would call an 'independent moderate.'
If you want to go east, don't go west.
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.
How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear.
The right scent can make you feel a little more stylish, but it should never eclipse who you are. It should complement who you are.
I look at a show like 'Roseanne.' That's super influential on me. It's very funny, very real, with real problems. That was a big influence, and I don't know if you see that all the time in the network world.
I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.
My feeling is that you should try to do the things you enjoy most in life. I chose acting as a career because I enjoyed it then as I do now. The only question for me then was, 'Can I make a living at it?'
Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities.
Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.
Dealing with actors is incredibly complex because they oftentimes are like pieces of clay. They want to be told how you want it done. You have to then decide if you want to be the teller or if you want to give them agency.
Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.
You don't really need much. I try to live my life with that sort of minimalist mentality.
The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.
Many models I knew had come from broken families. That makes a significant difference in the way you handle yourself and the choices you make.
When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.
If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.
Be as you wish to seem.
The thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people.
I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.
Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child.
I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'
Architects often have a mindset where you solve a problem, so you have a set of needs that you have to address. Often I feel that my projects have to have concrete applications.
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.
