I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film you're doing, you're in trouble.
You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
Some people bring their work home with them. You might suppose that Sid Mashburn is one of those guys - the man was born with a name so brand-ready he basically had to become an entrepreneur.
As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
I was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not for me.
When you play for 20 years - and really, I never had to miss a game due to injury - that's not just good protection. That's good luck.
I get my competitive edge from my mum. When we're together, we're competitive about little things - it'll be, 'I can bake cakes better than you can.' But she's never been a pushy parent; she's always just supported me.
If you have to drag somebody to register, they're not highly motivated.
The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.
It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.
As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you reach your goal, then that's the box ticked for me. I don't feel the need to repeat titles or repeat victories; as soon as I get the one, then I'm happy.
The way you play, you need to talk about winning. Don't talk about keeping your card - talk about winning.
If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made to a child's account below the national median income, we match it dollar for dollar - the federal government will.
I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.
Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.
Chemo days make me tired, though it's hard to say that's because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad's usual energy level.
You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.
Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need to know about that gene. But proteins are three-dimensional. They have to be because we are three-dimensional, and we're made of those proteins. Otherwise we'd all sort of be linear, unimaginably weird creatures.
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.
Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.
It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins.
Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people.
We have this false idea in our culture that if you haven't made it by 30, then you're never going to do anything interesting. My 40s have been the most incredible time of my life.
An illustration is a visual editorial - it's just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.
When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.
But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.
Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.
Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.
My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'
