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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

When you're playing the best player in the world, you've got to play well.

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

I've got two places I like to be. Portugal is one.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.

For myself, for a long time... maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn't worth hearing, and I think everyone's voice is worth hearing. So if you've got something to say, say it from the rooftops.

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a 'flat white.' It's like a small latte with less milk - they're popular in Australia.

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?