I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.

I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.

You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.

I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally.

President Johnson offered the middle of the road.

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.

That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.

Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing.

I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.

Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.

To me, it's the White House and always will be.

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.

I grew up in church, so every time I say certain words, I'm like, 'I'm going to get in trouble.'

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

We cannot pass our guardian angels bounds resigned or sullen he will hear our sighs.

Directive design gives an either or choice similar to a traffic sign. Interpretive design allows for personal choice in the same way symbolism allows for individual meaning.

Hopefully, I can cross over into Hollywood, and hopefully that will bring me a bigger name in China.

Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.

I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.

I'd hate it to become style over substance, I'd hate people to start putting me in a magazine article about my style. I don't like dressing up in something I'm not necessarily comfortable in just to make it more of a show. I want the power to come from what I sing about and how I sing.

Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

Nothing is free. You got to pay to be in society. First you start with homework.

Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet energy. You need, in order to gain control, higher energy than your dog.

Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

I think for Amazon's customers, it offers a kind of addictive service - the ability to shop without leaving your house, the ability to read without going to a bookstore or a library.

Elle MacPherson is absolutely amazing; she is just so beautiful.

I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential.

To be perfect is to develop expanding imperfection.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.