Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.

Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.

All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.

As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.

At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.

I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.

I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.

I stand up to people.

I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.

I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.

Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?

Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.

Purity of heart illuminates your life with light and strength of character.

When you don't have a laugh track, you can make the clothes funny. We can make a sign funny. We can make the way somebody walks funny. The makeup can be funny.

Be patient with all that is unresolved within your heart, and try to love the questions.

I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.

Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.

Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.

I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.

Is there any way to safeguard and acquire wealth? Yes, there is one sure way: namely, never to covet the wealth of another.

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

JavaScript: Don't judge me by my bad parts, learn the good stuff and stick with that!

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.

If you're going to be at a job environment, you should love it. You shouldn't do it just for money. You should do it because you love it. And the money comes naturally.

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'

One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient and remind yourself that you've been in Week 1 of a rehearsal process yourself, and you know what it feels like.