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'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

It's a job - someone's gotta kiss Jennifer Aniston. The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.

There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

The last couple of years I've been on an empty tank. And that's gotta change.

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.

You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.

I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.

Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.

We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure.

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea.

It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.

I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.