You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home, walking down the street you probably won't. It's something I've learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.
The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.
I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.
I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.
I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.
You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.
What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?"
I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.
I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.
I don't mind my age.
I hold up the sky I hold many pounds just so you know I can never fall on the *ground* I am made of the world without me you'll die the ones who survive are the ones that can fly
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.
You have 100 coins but none of them are nickels but all 100 of the coins total $5.00. What are those 100 coins?
When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.
pick a whole number between 1-10 ok now dubbel it ad on 423 half it and then take away the number you first started with your ancer should be 211.5
I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.
Which is the shortest sentence in the English language?
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.
What "walk" on water and it wont sink?
A man and a dog were going down the street. The man rode, yet walked. What was the dog's name?
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
I am Colorful, Fat, Red and White all over. What am I?