He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

I plan to die at my desk.

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes its the best kind of journalism as long you dont confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

A clever imaginative humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Everybody has an opportunity in America. I don't care if guys whine and complain about this or that. You know, no country affords its inhabitants the opportunities that the U.S.A. gives to its people.

If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.

The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The suns rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

There's been an unquestionable decline in American culture. The education system is thin on the ground. People don't read as deeply and at length as they used to. And the media has been scattered into so many cable channels.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

I am a man who likes to play consistently; I always play better when I'm on a run of games.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

I can never get to sleep without a book.

If you miss something in the theater, you are working through it; you'll get it tomorrow. It's easy to forgive yourself in the theater. On television, you do one shot. All you've done rehearsal-wise is be blocked. There is all this pressure to get it right then.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

My dad was a theater actor, so he had an agent, and he brought me into his agency when I was maybe four years old. That was how I started. I started modeling, and it progressed from there.

The Internet is the vehicle we're driving to share our visuals, outrage, and ideas around the world.

I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

A good teacher is a determined person.

I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!