Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.
I trained my son to be a puppeteer since he was a little boy.
What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.
Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds.
Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.
President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval gunnery officer and then as Congressman for a quarter century.
I made a Vine with 50 Cent where I smashed two quarters together, and he popped up.
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
I met Dylan on 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.' We buddied around for quite a while after that. We jammed together; he liked my Mexican songs.
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.
Daniel Radcliffe is one of the hardest working people I have ever encountered and someone that so loves what he's doing and so eager to learn and is so brilliant at what he does.
Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.
I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.
Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else.
Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.