Had Quotes

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

I've always had problems with guys!

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.