To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.

Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybodys minds.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

You know what we say in the Hamptons: If you have to come out on a Friday afternoon or go back on a Sunday night, you're not rich enough to have a house there. So, you have to be able to come and go when you feel like it in the Hamptons.

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say, 'We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.'

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

Like Moscow, I wish to lay the foundation of the Chinese Republic deeply in the minds of the young generation - the workers of tomorrow.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

Investors need to get rewarded for their investment, especially in unstable countries.

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

I like to think I'm some savage realist.

Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age.

The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

Football is a sad game.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

I think doing dramas kind of wears on you. It's just intense.

We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

I'm very serious about what I write and who I allow to produce the music, because I want to make sure it's a true album, and not just something pushed out there to create hype and more fame for myself.