Had Quotes

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection.

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

I've had some real hair disasters.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.

The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.

I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.