Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.

Michelle Trachtenberg

Fans Life Open People Press

Every time you do a project, you learn something new.

Justin Timberlake

Life is always at some turning point.

Irwin Edman

Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.

Indra Devi

Home Husbands Reason Women

When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.

Sandra Bernhard

It’s just a whole different thing, and it’s just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.

Teena Marie

Daughter Day Excitement Gifts God Life

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

Georg Brandes

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

Paul Wellstone

People Successful Vision

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

Carry Nation

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Samuel Butler

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Wallace Stevens

If you look at my bookings, they’ve gone down each season. That’s something I’m trying to keep improving. On the pitch you don’t want any silly bookings.

Wayne Rooney

Silly Trying Want

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

Philip Roth

Man Parents Will

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Love Sex Society

When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.

Adele Faber

Feelings Reality Service Strength

Why shouldn’t we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

William Gibson

Nothing Software Teachers Time

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn’t sing. It’s an intellectual play.

Jerome Lawrence

Opera Play Wind

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth’s sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Dream Friends Gain Time Truth

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier… I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

Steven Wright

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dudley Warner

Being Family Harmony Time World

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

Roger Ebert

You just don’t give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted.

Dee Brown

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

Gore Vidal

Audiences Writers

I’ve always been a huge reggae fan.

Ville Valo

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Taylor Swift

Business Nature Skin

Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.

James C. Dobson

The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

Valerie Jarrett

President Public

I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could’ve at least had nine or eight.

Wilt Chamberlain

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It’s a Middle Ages thing. That’s my theory anyway.

Tucker Carlson

Absence Superstition Theory

I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!

Susan Smith

Change Children Forgiveness Hope Hurt Love Will

But the lover’s power is the poet’s power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Amelia Barr

Love Power World

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Kurt Cobain

Freedom Pain Pretty Punk Saying Suffering Want World

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Dan Quayle

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

Howard Dean

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.

Leo Rosten

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

Empedocles

Beliefs Gods Thoughts Wealth

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.

Kenneth Branagh

It’s time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.

Mike Pence

Americans Conservative Right Time

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Publilius Syrus

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can’t say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.

Alexis Korner

This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.

Fredrik Bajer

Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.

Joel Siegel

If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I’d love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.

Hayley Mills

Love Magic Theater

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Elizabeth II

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

Adrienne Rich

It can’t be Nature, for it is not sense.

Charles Churchill

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

Ann Richards

Mistake People Responsibility

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

Bill Watterson

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

William James

Acceptance Consequences First Misfortune Overcoming

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can’t explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

John Fahey