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.

Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers Grow grow..

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.

But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.

The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it's a mistake for me.

Do or do not there is no try.

With homework school prepares students for overtime. With reports it prepares them for payday.

It is fun to be Rich DeVos. It's great fun.

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

No two minds are alike, [just as] no two faces are alike.

The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

I was in a movie with Angelina Jolie called 'Life Or Something Like It' where I played her fiance, and I have a song in there.

For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.

Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.

When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

I was in my first movie when I was five. I just loved to entertain and put on a show.

I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

God gave us music that we might pray without words.

In high school, I was very unpopular.