No, we’ve been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.
I’m not a hunter, but I’ve been around guns all my life. I’m a great shot.
Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.
I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I’m part of it. I didn’t ask to be put here, I’ve been lucky in finding myself here.
I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
My job as a surgeon is not just to fix a joint, but to give my patients the encouragement and tools they need to speed up their recovery and leave my clinic better than they have been in years.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
I’m so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they’ve been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I’ve made. It’s been very good having them on my side.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
This confidence is not something that happens overnight. I have been working on it for a long time. I look in the mirror and do affirmations: ‘You are bold. You are brilliant. You are beautiful.’ If my lower pooch is really popping out that day, I look at it and say, ‘Pooch, you are cute!’
I’ve always been a fighter. If you tell me I can’t, I’ll die trying to prove you wrong.
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time – the mind, protecting its sanity – covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn’t be happy if I were home all the time.
I’m learning to accept myself. I’m still in the process of learning to love who I am. And it’s been really refreshing and really nice to be able to do that and be okay. I think my fans have brought that out in me.
My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
It’s also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I’ve been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That’s why we’re here, after all, to help others.
If I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Wild globalisation has benefited some, but it’s been a catastrophe for most.
I was never a Certified Public Accountant… I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.
Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
I’ve been a Christian for a long time, and I think that Christianity gets a bad rap. I think that people’s perception of what a Christian is today is something that is close-minded and narrow, and that’s not what I am.
I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn’t been interested in and cultural things I hadn’t been aware of and economic factors I hadn’t thought about.
Acting is playing pretend, playing a children’s game at an adult level, but with children’s rules. It’s fun to play bad guys. I’ve never been in a fight in my life, so it’s fun to play something that’s different.
Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something that had always been missing. Complete love. I would die for them.
