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My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Life is all about having a good time.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.