Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn't trying to be anything other than he is. He isn't fooling anybody per se.
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the more difficult your book is, supposedly it's better.
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their parents fought in the Second World War.
To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am and therefore how totally unspecial I am. I was special among everyone else who was special. The fact that we're all so individual and that's what makes us special.
If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen.
When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.
It troubled me that we had these reports of torture of detainees, we had people jailed at Guantanamo Bay who couldn't even talk to their lawyers and couldn't see the evidence against them - sort of fundamental bedrock civil liberties things.
Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.
My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
I have friends who are in the posh category and some who are in the not-at-all-posh category, and some who you would find it very hard to get any sort of handle on. But I am lucky to have any friends, of course.
I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.
Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?
I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.
I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!
You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.
I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening.
I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
Colorado needs a governor who brings people together to create jobs and cut government spending.
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
