You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
My mom always had a softer spot for boys, as a lot of Irish women do. If you were a girl, you'd have to sing or wear a pretty dress. But boys could just sit there and be brilliant for sitting there and being boys. It makes you that little bit more forward. Pushy. I was singing, always.
For me, food and music are very similar in that you create, you spend a lot of time making something, and it only lasts a few seconds or a few minutes.
Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.
'War Eagle' is like 'I love you.'
When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.
I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.
I learned that I was just getting too consumed by racing. That's all I used to do was think about it. You have to be able to turn it off. You have to make yourself stop, or you'll get burned out.
During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.
I am very clear and very honest. I can say one thing, and you look at my face, and it is clear.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.
A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?
You always believed that as good as you knew you were, there was always somebody who could take your place. I tried to work as hard as I could to make sure that didn't happen.
I strongly believe being mayor is the public post in which you have the greatest opportunity to change peoples' lives for the better. People live in cities, not states or nations. As a mayor, you are connected directly to citizens.
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
I think, as a woman, you've got to make so many sacrifices.
If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.
One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.
Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
Many people who know me call me 'the hardest working man in the news business' because you're never, ever going to outwork me.
Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know.
Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.
I don't have any hidden talents but if you dare me to do something I'll go after it big time.
Some day we're gonna have interactive television where you can pick the shot that you want. You can watch defense, or you can watch the end-zone shot, or you can watch an isolated shot of Terance Mathis or whoever you want to. Because right now, the only thing that you watch is what the producer or director decides to show you.
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.
