Were Quotes

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.

All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story.

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?