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I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said "Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is".

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now.

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

I've always been into bearded dudes.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.