I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

I completely scorn the falsifying the sanctimonious the cheap and the shoddy.

Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.

The fact of the matter is, is that we need our borders secured. Certainly, we realize that there's going to have to be some kind of immigration reform, but I don't believe any of that's going to move forward until our border is secured.

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.

I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.

It doesnt behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I'll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I'll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish.

Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.

He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.

See with the eyes of love and a thing becomes beautiful. See with the eyes of hate and things are ugly.

With the advent of cable and such, you guys are calling it the golden age of TV in terms of the writing and stuff. But it's like different branches of a big tree that TV has become.

There are a lot of different sides to me. I don't know if I'm always peaches-and-cream.

My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.

Whenever I date a guy I think is this the man that I want my children to spend their weekends with

I had a director who told me a story about a fan who had commented on how nice it was to see her sister laughing and how happy the show made her. I like to make people happy and make them laugh.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.

I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.

I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.