I'm a lousy reader.

I've made my peace with myself.

If you're going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you're going to blow it, blow it big.

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.

When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

I was always the second heavy.

I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.

I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

I'm a lousy reader.

So don't applaud. Just send me the check.

It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.

If youre going to be a bum be the biggest. If youre going to blow it blow it big.

You do your best with the realization that nothing gets you in ring-shape better than being in the ring.

We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work the process of creation should be given time and thought.

The irony is that we're really good at comedy in Britain, but for some reason, we make very few comedy films. And when we do, they're either quite American in style, or very Richard Curtis. And I like Richard Curtis, but I think only Richard Curtis should write Richard Curtis films, and other people should try and find their own style.

I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.

The 'economy' became a god such as never before, and a happy, successful society was one that could please this god - sometimes by sacrificing beautiful things - to keep the deity from getting angry and harming the people by withdrawing favours.

Much has been written about the life of the mind.

I'm not going to just fade out, I know.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

We're a community of a billion-plus people, and the best-selling phones - apart from the iPhone - can sell 10, 20 million. If we did build a phone, we'd only reach 1 or 2 percent of our users. That doesn't do anything awesome for us. We wanted to turn as many phones as possible into 'Facebook phones.' That's what Facebook Home is.

I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids - my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me - just a lot of kids at one time.

Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

If a man is not faithful in minor matters he is not to be trusted in major matters.

I realised that a television show on political lampoon was one genre that was missing.

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

All things come down to your personal relationships.

Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.

Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

In a democratic nation power must be linked with responsibility and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

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