The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.

There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.

I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.

To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.

To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.

If I'm in love I want to get married. That's how stupid I am.

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

I don't think Lloyd's of London would insure this mouth.

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

There were no bigger stars in the new evangelism than the Bakkers.

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.

I felt no stigma whatsoever in becoming the third Mrs. Gifford.

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.

Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later.

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.