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I believe in Buddhism. Not every aspect, but most of it. So I take bits and pieces.

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some help.

If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.