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My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

My weight went up and down like a yo-yo.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Never, never, never give up.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.