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They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.

She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.

I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life.

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.'

I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to this day.

In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things.

I think I've definitely had my rock bottom and I think that was probably right before I went into treatment where I said, 'I definitely need help.'

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

I found that nothing that anybody else said to me would work.

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

I've always got stuff in my head in case I meet somebody like Steven Spielberg or someone like that, where I can hopefully say something to them that nobody else has ever said and get a laugh out of them.

Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?'

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.