Any Quotes

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

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.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

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.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

I think Hannah gets nervous just like any other person would. She's like a dork, personally. She's just really, really fun.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.