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And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I'm really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can't wait for our fans to see and I'm looking forward to the "Hannah Montana" movie that will be out in the spring.

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

I just worry because I know I say a lot, often. It doesn't bother me, it's more about the people that get affected around me.

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.