If you aren't going to do something all the way, don't do it.

If you aren't going to do something all the way, don't do it.

A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.

As soon as I hear the word 'competition' I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

If you have a problem, try to get help, you can get through it if you get help.

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.

The excitement of being a Task Rabbit is that you can create your own businesses and become an entrepreneur. We're creating jobs for people in this economy. Some of the Task Rabbits are cashing out at $5,000 per month.

If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled.

I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.

Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.

Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!

I threw my son, Brandon, a rave for his birthday and I fully set it up like a crazy rave with lights and sound, me and my partner DJ'd - I got Mix Master Mike from the Beastie Boys to come DJ for a bit.

Thats the first rule of command be consistent You can be sadistic you can be lazy you can be stupid but if youre consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

Behavioral scientists distinguish between fast thinking and slow thinking. Fast thinking is represented in the mind's System 1: it is automatic, intuitive, and often emotional. Slow thinking, reflected in System 2, is deliberative and reflective; it likes statistics. It's hard to think of a purer System 1 candidate than Trump.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

Theres a fascination frantic in a ruin thats romantic.

I never get recognized for 'Mean Girls.' I can be walking around with Daniel Franzese, who's in the movie and a friend of mine, and people will come up to him and start freaking out and have no idea who I am.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me.

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

Many chefs are either technically or artistically better than me, but I know my food has soul.

In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.

The beautiful light behind her smile makes her eyes glow with a love for life Ive never experienced before. What true beauty is.

Education is freedom.