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You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

My weight went up and down like a yo-yo.

I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.

If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

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.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.