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Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.

I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.