Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.

Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.

I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.

That's an actor's dream to get something meaty and juicy and challenging to work on.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.

Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I might be doing when I was a kid, and I'd love to bring those interests to a show like 'E.R.' or 'The West Wing,' or a movie like 'Jurassic Park.'

To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the best hope in the majority of cases in the Federal courts.

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.

I'm a Baltimore guy. I've always loved Baltimore and always will love Baltimore, but baseball is baseball, and when you're playing on the opposing team, you're going to get booed.

I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything.

Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.

It's going to you know, I can't go out there and shoot par and win. Everybody is playing well, and I think you'll have to go out tomorrow and have 4 , 5 , 6 under par probably.

The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

By making a company successful, you can provide more employment, and, if you treat your staff well, then your business itself becomes a charity.

I like to wear boots with skirts or mini-dresses, or jeans with sneakers and jumpers, leather jackets, or a rain coat.

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

I really don't like talking about diets.

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.

Everyone is ignorant only on different subjects.