I had the right to remain silent… but I didn’t have the ability.
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
There’s been moments where I’ve felt, as an indigenous woman growing up in Australia, there’s been that kind of rivalry of being indigenous… I’ve had that experience of someone saying, ‘I don’t know if she’s going to go that far.’
The ’60s had edge; the ’70s had embroidery.
Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
I grew up idolising Madhuri Dixit, though I wasn’t a Hindi film buff. I had an academic upbringing, and movies were a rarity. I looked up to Madhuri because I loved dancing, and she’s a fantastic dancer.
I’ve had many ups and downs before, and I think it’s always darkest before dawn.
I think I can always look back and say my mom and dad would have done this or suggested that in a particular situation. I just really feel blessed to have had them as parents.
Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
People do think I’m Jewish. But we’re Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.
On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I’ve had both knees reconstructed.
Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and already made a profit.
I ain’t never had nothing good in life.
Everyone loves a winner. That’s just how the world is. And Ayrton Senna was one of the greatest winners this sport has ever had.
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don’t find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.
I’ve got nothing against plastic surgery at all. I know lots of people, young and old, who’ve had it. The point about good surgery is you can’t see it. The important thing is not to go crazy – and not to go to a bad surgeon.
I’ve had long hair, I’ve had short hair, and I’ve had in between hair… and its all good.
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.
I’m Italian; I take my time. We’re not really fast. We’re very slow. I had my first child at 40, my second child at 45, James Bond at 50. I’m so curious as to what’s next!
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Relationships are eternal. The ‘separation’ is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.
If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.
I had a bad background just growing up as a child.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.
I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction – I was bored! And only when I started did I think, ‘Sheesh, what have I gotten into?’ I had to go after it fully; I just had to.
They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people’s revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ‘It’s pretty, but is it Art?’
I’m so grateful for all the experiences I’ve had; the life lessons I’ve learned along the way are just completely invaluable.
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
It’s the first war we’ve ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they’d be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.
My mother had a saying: ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.’
I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it’s one that I have.
The six of us gathered at my house, and we walked to the polls. I’ll never forget it. Not a Negro was on the streets, and when we got to the courthouse, the clerk said he wanted to talk with us. When we got into his office, some 15 or 20 armed white men surged in behind us – men I had grown up with, had played with.
I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.
All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.
If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America’s bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.
If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I’d be a rich man right now.
Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was unlike anything that had gone before.
I’m really thankful for every experience I’ve had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.
It just doesn’t go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
