No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.'

If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.

I went to Parsons. American sportswear was my education, and that is what is important to me.

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

I think there are always people who, when they get the bug to play an instrument, they want to get as good as they can with it rather than just be simply adequate at it. You run into them every once in a while - some kid who wants to be the next Stevie Ray Vaughan, for whatever reason, and plays exactly like him.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price.

I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.

I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel.

I really thought, with my background growing up, and my service, and all that, I thought it would be enough for the presidency. But... It sure was enough when I ran for Congress.

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.

I am an actor, and although I love music, and at times can't live without it, I eat, sleep, breath, sweat, and bleed acting.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

You have educate the masses to exactly what their tax dollars are going to pay for. I think once people educate themselves and open up their minds to understand that on that really basic level, then you'll have some type of change in the way that Americans associate themselves and participate in their own political process.

What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

I can never tell a joke, I've always found it easier to just fall over.