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When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

I figure when you get married, it doesn't matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself.

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.