Whether you agree or disagree with privatization, two things are obvious. First, taxpayers need to be asking more and better questions before handing over control of critical public assets like a highway, an airport, or a parking meter concession. And second, Uncle Sam is being played for a sucker.
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.
Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
I don't know if it's shocking, but I'm the world's biggest klutz. I have been dancing since I was 3, and I have modeled, and I have good balance, but you wouldn't know it. Hanging out with me, I do everything from spill food on myself to trip up stairs. I'm the queen of that, most definitely.
Negotiation is often described as the art of letting the other side have your way. You have to give the other side a chance to put stuff on the table voluntarily.
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.
I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.
You do the best you can.
I have a 15-year-old boy, and we are about to give him car keys, which seems like an act of insanity when you know what you know about 15-year-old boy behavior. But in 2018, we'll have self-driving cars, and it will be so much better. My son may be the last generation of kids who learns to drive.
I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'
You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.
Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.
I keep my ears open. The world can change overnight; that's what happens in this world. You never know. You have to keep your eyes and ears open. If you can't keep up, you ain't gonna catch up. I've been making records since 1953, and you just have to keep up.
I've been really lucky. I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.
I try not to have too many rituals because I believe that rituals don't help you win. I used to do rituals a lot and it was crazy.
When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.
People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!
With us, it's a very specific audience. If you like steak, this is it for you.
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
