Had Quotes

I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

My best friend just had a baby, and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now, which is crazy.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture.

I had to test a new terror in myself.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.