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Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit.

I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what's going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

At 18, I felt I was too young to think about having my eggs frozen.

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

When I'm out there on the field, I'm in a whole different world, you know? It's like, I'm just having so much fun.

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.

But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time.

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate.

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.

I just like having fun. And, you know, sometimes I just like to present myself in that fun energy.