Them Quotes

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

Spaghetti... I can't eat spaghetti, there's too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,000 of something is too many. I'll have 1,000 pieces of noodles.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.