Key Quotes

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.

Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China.

But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

Never say never. I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look like a different person, I don't want my face frozen.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion.

A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation.

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.

Optimism is the key.

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.

I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

Young people are the key to this election.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.