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Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

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

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

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?

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.

I was very troubled, yes. Me and my brother both - we were troubled and troublemakers.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.