Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.

Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.

First you date the songs, and then you get engaged and then you marry them. They have to stand the test of time, because they are going to be yours for the next 20, 30, 40 years. So you had better choose right.

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

'The Tudors' was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.

I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'

The whole 'I Told You,' there's nothing written. That was all out of the feeling. That's why the album is so incredible to me - it's all out of the heart; I didn't take time to pre-calculate it.

If my colleagues stop eating donuts and are more active, it saves me money on next year's insurance premium, and I get to work with people who have more energy and creativity each day. Yet most organizations fail to make health a cultural priority. Instead, they treat healthcare like any other expense.

I try to work out at the least 3 days a week, and I aim for 4 to 5 days a week. I try to eat healthy, but I'm not going to say I'm best the best at that. I won't allow myself to buy junk food, but if it's somewhere and it's free, I'll eat it.

I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

Why are we so complicated in something so pure and simplistic that would mean me should leave our ego out.

Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

If my performance touches someone or helps someone understand themselves a little better or gives them a laugh, I feel like I gave them something. I want to touch people's lives and bring them along with me.