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I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was about a kid that didn't quit.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.