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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

I don't really have goals as far as, I want to be on a cover or something like that.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

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.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

If you've seen a photo of me from when I was a kid, I don't think anyone would have expected that going in front of the camera was something that I was going to do. I can't believe how little effort my parents put into making me seem like an appealing little girl.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.