My idol, Muhammad Ali, got beat when nobody thought he would, and he came back and back to beat Joe Frazier.
With 'Family and Loyalty,' I didn't already have an idea for that video. So I called Fab Five Freddy. I wanted to get a director that I didn't have to explain Gang Starr to and he was with it.
President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.
Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.
When I first got my driver's license, I was hit by a drunk driver. He was coming off of a freeway, and I was hurt pretty badly from somebody driving really fast.
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said, 'Americans are too clean...' I took no offense.
Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.
Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.
I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.
A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.
If you throw a frog in boiling water, he'll just hop out. But if you put him in warm water and slowly amp up the temperature, he won't notice and end up boiled.
Nixon knew exactly what he wanted to accomplish in his four interviews with David Frost, quite apart from having his agent Irving Paul Lazar negotiate a terrific deal for him, with cash up front.
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.
