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The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American.

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

I love Eminem, I love Moby. Why can't we just be friends?

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.

I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

Just because you're part of 'Twilight' does not mean you're a superstar. It means that you're given the opportunity to maybe become one later if you work hard. Once fandom goes away, which it will very soon, it's all about having your priorities straight and working hard.

I choose to live, not just exist.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.

When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.