We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.
The best working experiences I've had are with directors who want to create with you while you're on set. I prefer a much freer environment. That's why I'm always trying to mess things up, just to know that I can!
President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.
I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.
There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth.
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
It's a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.
I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household.
Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.
I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.
The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I've heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don't, you'll be walking around like a zombie.
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.
The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.
No matter what I put out, somebody will be offended. I made a video on 10 reasons to smile, and it has dislikes. That should be an indication that there will be some who get offended no matter what you do. The best you can do as an entertainer or as someone who performs is to follow what you believe in.
I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.
There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
It's weird. You find a safe place in someone who you feel like maybe they can't judge you because they don't know you.
I like animals. I like people who like animals. I hate people who love animals to the point they lose their sense of reason. I'm talking the 'my computer wallpaper is my dog,' 'I hang a Christmas stocking for my cat' crowd.
I'm not afraid to say 'Jesus Christ,' and I'm not afraid to speak of those who worship him. After all, Jesus preached about love.
Every person who has a reading with me has an audiotape.
There's something very bizarre about having a father who has disappeared. It's very hard to articulate.
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.
Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.
I'm incredibly excited to be joining the 'Doctor Who' family. It's such an extraordinary British institution, I couldn't be prouder to call the TARDIS my home.
