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Right before Pamela Anderson met Tommy Lee I got this crazy script to do this incredible movie with her where I play this cop with a young partner like Brad Pitt who is in love with Pamela Anderson and he gets killed in the line of duty and she falls in love with me and it gets really crazy. I turned that down.

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.

If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.

We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.

Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries.

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.