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I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am.

I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don't necessarily care about anyone else.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.