After Quotes

Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can't wait to do more.

A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money.