I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

Life at best is bittersweet.

Perfectionists are their own devils.

When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It's just part of the American scene.

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.

If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.

Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.

The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow.

People laugh at me because I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

As long as I'm having fun, I'm not quitting.

Gardening is civil and social but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

Building up an organisation is like starting a social movement. At the center of everything is the core team. I have the honor of working with some phenomenal people at Purpose who are at the top of their fields. That energy and common purpose among the team is what inspires me and where the magic happens.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

Well, you know, my wife and I have eight children. We have now 19 grandchildren.

Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

I struggled with self-esteem issues as a young girl, and it was not until my gymnastics career was completed in 2000 that I realized my accomplishments would not have been possible without my type of body, and I finally started to appreciate and celebrate myself.

Art is a luxury but also a necessity.

Fashion is a completely international business.

I always look for the writers and what they're creating. If it's something I don't buy, it's really hard for me to play it. To me, it has to be grounded in some sort of reality. It's really hard to go to these extreme places if they're not grounded.

My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment. Take this day this moment and lead it to perfection.

When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it.

I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

In 'Zombieland,' it was such a freewheeling plot it almost didn't matter what the characters were doing scene to scene as long as there was a consistent banter.

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.