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My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

My personality is up and down, sassy and cheeky.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.

Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!