If you can't do it and do it well, you can't do it, period.

Everything has to do with geography.

The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is.

If you can't do it and do it well, you can't do it, period.

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.

Everybody has something they love to do. Do that thing.

When the student is ready, the master appears.

As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.

He that takes truth for his guide and duty for his end may safely trust to Gods providence to lead him aright.

I usually find several ways to express myself: different moods, different days, different voices, different things, 'I'm lighthearted today, I'm gonna do this.'

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

The essence of a religion can be discovered by asking its adherents one question: 'What, to your mind, was the seminal moment in the history of the world?'

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

I'm interested in looking for solutions because it's become the case that in fashion you're either a villain or a victim. Look at the industry's very limited remit in terms of body size, for example.

Before the first xx record, I pretty much exclusively listened to electronica. Now, I listen to anything. I think the most inspiring thing is just learning more about more and more different kinds of music and becoming a fan of so many different types and so many different genres.

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.

Bacons not the only thing thats cured by hanging from a string.

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.

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

If you keep going with a definite purpose, you will find the way and reach the destination.

America is a country that, even with all its flaws, has been able to flourish because there is a certain ideology about fighting for what you believe in. What you choose to believe in - no matter how small or big it is - is what you believe in, and that ideology has made America.

The naked truth is still taboo.

Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I've gone to Indianapolis to study with him.

I'm a lot more creative than people can imagine.

I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't change. Storytelling is a primitive tribal function. The elders sat around the fires and told these stories as a way to pass on the 'dos' and the 'don'ts.' That will never change.

Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that youve become a comfortable trusted element in another persons life.