Me Quotes

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

For me the visual is just as important as the music.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.