We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.

I obsess over places I will never live and restaurants at which I aspire to eat.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization, which means we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make people fit around jobs. We focus on what people's natural strengths are and spend our management time trying to find ways for them to use those strengths every day.

Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.

You do not need permission to feel glorious.

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

I have to keep explaining to people that screen kissing isn't quite the same; it's close, but it isn't quite the same as a normal, real-life kiss.

Spock is definitely one of my best friends. When I put on those ears, it's not like just another day. When I become Spock, that day becomes something special.

From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

Every Friday we'd do a final practice 'walk-through' for the game, and I just remember we were always out on the field dancing and singing together.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.

I never get in trouble.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

It is so important for European countries, post-Second World War, to prove that they can be successful multiethnic and multiracial democracies. I think we in Britain have had great success in avoiding the hatreds and prejudices of the past.

The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special.

Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.

I've been in the hospital once when I had my daughter, and, oh, when I broke my elbow, but other than that, I've been very fortunate.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.