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To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over.

Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.

Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.

It's always good to go over the recipe beforehand, so you can easily think of the next thing that needs to be done.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.

We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray.

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.

But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

What people don't realize is that China papered over its last two credit bubbles, those in 1999 and 2004. The banks were never bailed out - they just exchanged their bad loans for questionable bonds from quasi-state organizations.

The practical reality of managing cars in the family - I do 36-month leases. I think they're horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.