I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

Nobody is so weird others cant identify with them.

Courtship is romantic. Marriage ... is an act of will said Pippa taking a sip of water. I mean I adore Herb. But the marriage functions because we will it to. If you leave love to hold everything together you can forget it.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

It is not so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable, on account of some single irradiating word.

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn't a good idea.

Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

It's so crazy to meet people you've known about since you were many feet shorter than you are now.

My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!

The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.

My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

I'm a cigar aficionado.

Americans hate their cable companies - for bumbling installers, on-again-off-again transmissions, peculiar channel selections, and indifferent customer service. The only thing cable subscribers hate more than the cable company is not being able to get what it delivers: multichannel selection and good reception.

I think the older that I'm getting, the more I'm understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I'm directing films and I'm getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works.

He's a great kid. He hates the same way I do.

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'

I've witnessed first hand the impact the Benchmark team has had on new ventures, and I believe their commitment to the entrepreneur and dedication to building companies of lasting value really set the firm apart.

"Misunderstanding" arises only when you see the things with closed eyes.

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.

Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England, it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.

I don't really have time to watch too much, but I like 'Family Guy' and 'Entourage.' I'm also obsessed with the YouTube series 'Balls of Steel.' It's hilarious.

Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.

I never stop working when I'm on stage, and that's my fitness.