Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.
When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
You can't be the candidate and the campaign manager.
You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.
Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.
Don't worry too much if you don't pass exams, so long as you feel you have understood the subject. It's amazing what you can get by the ability to reason things out by conventional methods, getting down to the basics of what is happening.
If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.
I don't know if you've noticed it. But Duchamp was magnificent.
I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
Square meals, not adventurous ones, are what you should seek.
I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.
You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.
I've been doing acting since I was 6 years old, and I don't know how to do anything besides act and sing. Back in the day, you had to do it all - you had to sing, dance, and act. I'm from the old school where that is what I was trained to do, and that's what I am expected to do, so it's weird when people ask me to choose.
I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in Africa?'
If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an envelope, you send it to a friend, and you want to know when they get it. It's like FedEx - they let you know when the package gets dropped off.
In baseball, you don't know nothing.
My sister and I were not allowed expensive clothes. We so badly wanted these Fila sneakers as kids, but my mother took us down to the flea market and got imitation ones. Look at the early Destiny's Child videos. You'll see.
Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.
The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start.
When you die, we go back to the white energy of all the white energy: white heat that's flung against the sky and becomes a star.
In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.
I lived in L.A. for seven years, and if you're a German actor, they always throw the Nazi parts at you.
You can't build a society without law.
What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.
Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.
Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.
You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.
