I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat.

The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'

I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat.

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed.

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe.

You know, why don't you take him off all this stuff you have him hopped up on, all this garbage that we're feeding him, all this sugar and caffeine, and then see what happens?

Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man, that is so good,' but I can't take a bite of it.

I was starting to become impotent through this diet and couldn't perform. How many people who are taking the little blue pill, if they started to change what they are eating most of the time, could change the way their sex life is?

Sorry there s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.

I went to North Carolina to play football.

Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.

My best move is probably my pull up jump shot.

I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought of as writers rather than ghettoised as crime writers, but I love being thought of firmly as a crime writer.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

To be scared is sensible to be comfortable is suicidal.

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Our nation is defined by an unshakable belief that we, the people, have the ability to control our destiny. A belief that anyone can reach out and grab opportunity and create a more prosperous future for themselves, their children and their grandchildren.

Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.

I was blessed with blonde hair and a baby face - well, I don't know if you'd call that blessed - I don't even remember when I started shaving.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important.

I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition or thought of what I should be doing or had any idea of what I'd like to do. Never. And still don't. And if something comes along, I say 'Fine.'

As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week.

A guy my size needs a tremendous amount of protein on a daily basis, just to maintain peak size, strength, and performance. Basically, that means six or seven small meals a day, so I depend on protein supplementation.

I'm a fun person, but to be the life of the party all the time, just to walk into a room and be 'on' and have everybody looking at you, that is so incredibly scary for me.

I never tried to kill myself or anything.

It would be a dream if I was able to fight in Croatia.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Be brave. Take Risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.

When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.