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Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren't that many people who I respect. There just aren't.

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.

I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before.

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.

However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama .

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.

My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.

As I said before, I'm prepared to be prepared and I think that remains the same, you know there's no way to really know what it's going to feel like. I think for each individual it's different.

I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years.

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.

We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.

Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.

I find that putting my makeup on and playing with different looks is really relaxing for me before the show.

You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm like a god.

I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.