Had Quotes

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.

I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.

Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

I've had dreams about tricks.

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.