The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.

Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.

The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.

The information we need is not available. The information we want is not what we need. The information we have is not what we want.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was now an imprisonable offence. I was quite shaken.

Consider the lilies of the field whose bloom is brief: We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.

I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.

Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accept the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay-and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.

The aim of the college for the individual student is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self educating man.

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

The right wing is appealing to a shrinking, shrinking demographic of angry white people who blame their predicament in life on the fact that there are immigrants coming into the country; it's pretty ludicrous.

I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person.

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.

When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

Sometimes you go for weeks without writing successfully, and you don't feel like a writer anymore. When friends ask me how my week was or how I'm doing, I think back on it, and I've just been by myself. Like, I'm just a sketch.

I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.

My track record is that I have always sought to work with warmth and in a constructive way with the leaders of other components of the Jewish faith.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.