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'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.

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.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.