If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.

My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.

We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.

If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.

Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

I respect people that tell me the truth. No matter how hard it is.

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

The fact of the matter is that an actor, if I'm playing a performance capture role and you're playing a live action role and we're having a scene together, there's no difference in our acting processes.

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.

There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.

I have always had confidence in my ability; I knew I'd get a chance coming here. That's one of the main reasons why I signed for Tottenham.

Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading.

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

Ask any worker at Starbucks, Cosi, McDonald's or Walmart, 'How many jobs do you have?' and likely he or she will tell you: 'Two.' I know colleagues who've had breakfast at one store, and gone to lunch in another, only to find the same person waiting on them.

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

I don't enjoy any kind of danger or volatility. I don't have that kind of 'I love the bad guys' thing. No, no thank you. I like nice people.

Freedom is not to defy it is to co exist. It is a challenge for the imagination

A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!

The thing intellectuals understand least is themselves.

I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else.