In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.
You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.
I am neither living nor dead. I am but commonly mistaken for something else. I am either taken for granted or appreciated. And I can be expressed in one or more ways.
I didn't get my degree at NYU I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.
As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.
I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.
When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.
Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
What's more powerful than God, More evil than the Devil, Poor people have it, Rich people don't want it, And you can die eating it. What is it?
Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.
I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
Face like a tree skin like the sea a great beast I may be yet vermin frighten me.
I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
There only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important. What am I ?
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
What animal has four legs in the morning two at noon and three at night
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
Knock Knock Whos There Banana Banana Who? Knock Knock Whos There Banana Banana Who? Orange Orange Who?
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.
there are ten fishes in the tank, one day one of the fish died and is the amount of water now increase or decrease?
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
what do you sleep on, sit on, and brush your teeth with
My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.