Many Quotes

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country.

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.

Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.

These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.

This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.