Were Quotes

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them a few tips or whatever. But yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was definitely a good time and we're definitely going to do it again next year.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.