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I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department.

I don't know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, 'Is this just a dream?'

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I've discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and I got knocked out twice in the first round.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

I had a bunch of different hair colors. I was experimenting to see what I liked. It started off brown, then I did red, then I got really, really blonde!

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.