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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

And people are always saying he deceptively quick, deceptively athletic, and I don't know if that's just because I'm Asian or what it is, but obviously there's going to be stereotypes that you have to fight.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'

I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.