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I can remember - I don't want to identify the individual - but a very prominent Democrat, who compared looking at Carter and then Reagan, and then Bush, and observed that many of the people around Carter were totally disloyal to him.

I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

I not only played and sang blues, but I also had to toss the piano around a bit to amuse the patrons.

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

I think everyone around the world knows the tools are there in England's armoury to do well in a World Cup. The challenge is to go out there and prove it.

At a party recently I was introduced to Meryl Streep, and it took me a second to get my head around it. You know, that I'm meeting these people now. I'm doing it.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club.

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.

I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.

It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.

The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.

There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.

The future comes quickly. Before you know it, you turn around and it's tomorrow.

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, "What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink." Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'