Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.

I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.

Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.

The fact is all of the most highly successful scientists I know work practically all the time.

It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she cant.

Real intimacy depends on truth lovingly told especially in the bedroom.

The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism the claim that there is no God but rather Gnosticism the claim that God is known.

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

There's a great energy and drive that takes precedence in a lot of rock and pop. It's about making a strong visceral connection. That's something that I think great classical music can have, too.

I'd said no to directing 'Snowtown' a few times and was quite scared of it, but I saw a story there that was worth telling.

The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as a person. Don't worry about being judged by others who don't know you, because your family and close friends know what you're all about, good and bad.

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

I enjoy talking to fans.

While my college had done an excellent job recruiting me, I had no road map for what I was supposed to do once I made it to campus.

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.

If you're wanting something salty, do air-popped popcorn. That, to me, would be a healthier choice than having any kind of fried chip.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything.

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.

Right after the draft, when I came out to Oakland, there was a press conference and a dinner with the owner, GM, and Coach Nelson. We did some sightseeing and some house searching the next day, but to be honest, I had no idea what I was doing. I tried to find a spot close to our gym, because I figured that's where I'd spend most of my time.

The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

When you love what you do, you just really fall in love with it. Sometimes you record a lot more songs than the album will even hold. You record like 300 songs and only 12 songs go on the album. It takes time. But if you love what you do, it works out.