Am Quotes

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

I'm every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am.

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

I have no doubt who I am.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.

I'm lucky enough to be with someone, and I am happy.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world.

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.