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I'm fed up with being bossed around.

Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.

What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.