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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I'm ready to rip it right now, there's five people in the band, there's five people who've evolved and grown and there's five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

I have this whole new audience now.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.

I don't think there'd be a Tina Fey now if I hadn't tried to look good in the beginning.

I definitely think anything I'd be in now is a permanent relationship.

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.

I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.