Santa was a fake.

Santa was a fake.

Don't do anything to anyone, and people will not make trouble for you.

After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the back.

You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on anything but human activity. They are like those who, having been diagnosed with diabetes, eat donuts for breakfast. There's not much to do about them.

Well, I get excited about music.

I think 'GoodFellas' is just a perfect film. From an efficiency of storytelling standpoint, from an entertainment standpoint, from a performance standpoint, from a use of music standpoint, from a cinematography and editing standpoint - to me, it's just a perfect movie.

The thing thats fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

About the time of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, the Etruscan power had reached its height.

My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.

I am capable.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

I have only a relatively tiny gap of being at my best, in my prime. And I want to make a difference during that time.

We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.

In Mexico, wealth and poverty live next to each other and are cordial with each other - in my experience.

I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families.

I have an excellent internal compass.

You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It's simply because when a human looks at a shape, they instantly receive energy from their brain.

Oh and Oh is a tennis term . . . . Its a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

Eponymous brands aren't that popular with analysts and investors now. You can only take an eponymous brand with a living figurehead so far, they argue. What happens when they grow old and die? What happens when they misbehave and go seriously off-brand?