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Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

In our heads we're all about 33 years old.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.

If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?