Had Quotes

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

The face of terrorism in Iraq is dead. Abu Musab al Zarqawi brutalized, tortured, and killed thousands of innocent people, forcing Iraqis to live in fear. The Iraqi people finally had enough, and gave up his whereabouts to the Iraqi security forces.

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

I had my own battle tactics.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

I think if you talk to anybody who would like to have had children... I mean, you look at families all the time and you see there is something there that you don't have.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.