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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

There's not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half.

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said "Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is".

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.