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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.

Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.

I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.

Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.