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Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

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 tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.