I'm very proud of my roots, and I would never try not to be who I am.
I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.
I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
As someone who went to school in the '70s and '80s, I can't say that I noticed much of a 'medals for all' culture myself.
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.
There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.
Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?
He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds.
I want people to see me for who I am and not for how someone else is trying to promote me.
There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave the city not less but more beautiful than I found it.'
Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
I have had it with people who are threatening me and my kids and my family over simply commenting on the law and criminal procedure, and respecting juries. Because they do work hard. They work way harder than I do; and they work way harder than the rest of those people making those peanut gallery comments.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
I think there should be a law that would allow the Oireachtas to take pensions away from people. That would go for corrupt politicians; it would go for public servants who failed miserably or were incompetent.
I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.
Simple idea with powerful consequences: everyone who intersects your life knows something you don't.
I don't have a lot of stomach for people who don't show up to a set knowing their lines because you're keeping 150 people waiting.
I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.
Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.
People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.
Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.
I'm probably the only guy in the country who can say he's worked under Chuck Noll and Don Shula.
I didn't know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.
Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.
I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.
