No one pays me to be nice.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

Life is like an analogy.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

No one pays me to be nice.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

When all else fails, complicate matters.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

I'm eating a lot of organic proteins and vegetables! Maintaining a healthy, balanced diet is my No. 1 priority because I'm nursing my daughter.

It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.

There's a reason people are not going to Obamacare. They find out what it's gonna cost 'em, and they go somewhere else. And in the process, they're undermining the very foundation of Obamacare, all of which was predictable.

The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.

BET, I'll never, never, ever forget them for this wonderful blessing they gave to me, to be on the 10th annual BET awards for my comeback.

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.

Get over it Life isnt Supposed to be fair. Get over yourself and be of service to others.

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.

Under the bright but faded lights, you set my heart on fire.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside awakes.

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if you piss me off, I can be one of the meanest, most sadistic people.

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

People have found very significant and simple ways to cheat their employer and get money out of their employers, and many companies lack good internal controls.

That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.