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Fool me once shame on me, Fool me twice stop fucking lieing!

For every hate-filled attempt to harm, there will be always the legion of those who do not hesitate to give their help and care to a stranger when it is needed.

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

The public has become my fairy godmother.

Throughout Ireland, there's a brilliant community of filmmakers and actors, and I guess there was always a lure to do some work in the place where I come from.

I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.

I always try to lace my work with just a teensy-weensy bit of humour. It's rather like putting a sprig of feathery stuff in a flower arrangement: I believe humour is a great balancer.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

There was a jingle house called Lucas/McFaul in New York, and they called me 'the demo king.' I almost never had the big final - in jingles, you have the big final, and then you sing on it, and you make a good deal of money.

If your church is the theatre, New York means a lot - it's a pilgrimage you want to make.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

El ámbito público ha perdido el poder de iluminación que formaba parte de su naturaleza original. En los países del mundo occidental, en el que, desde el declive del mundo antiguo, se ha considerado la de emanciparse de la política como una de las libertades básicas, un número cada vez mayor de personas hace uso de esa libertad y se apartan del mundo y de sus obligaciones en él [...]. Pero con cada uno de esos abandonos se le inflige al mundo una pérdida casi demostrable: lo que se pierde es el compromiso específico y, habitualmente, irreemplazable que debería haberse formado entre el individuo y sus prójimos.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

The only time you had blacks, whites, and Latinos jamming together was in hip-hop. It's an unsung history.

People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with anything?

It is not the situation. It is your reaction to the situation.

Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

In Seattle, I've talked about how Pete Carroll is such... I'm kind of surprised at the variety of styles that successful coaches can have. Some are very communicative and positive and energized - like, Pete Carroll has all that in spades. Some of them are more cerebral; some are more directive.