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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

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

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.

If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Sometimes, it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.