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There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.

Before the advent of artificial light, we had 13, 14 hours in bed every night... and so what we experience now is about a 40% contraction of how we used to sleep, and I for one am glad of that - I don't want to spend 13 hours in bed.

Knowledge is the power, you have to apply it at the right time in the right circumstance with the right attitude.

Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.

I live in New Orleans part of the year, and it's a really fun eating town. I bought two homes there, one to live in and one as an investment. They love to eat, drink and dress up in costumes. There are so many reasons to dress up - Mardi Gras, Halloween, Southern Decadence.

I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.

The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.

Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.

I don't want to just be the best player. I want to be a great person, too.

'Research,' for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is traveling to places, or studying snowflakes with a magnifying glass, or excavating one's memories. Research is walking around Hamburg with a notebook.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

I am grateful my own eternal companion served a mission in Hawaii before we were married in the Salt Lake Temple, and I am pleased that I have had three granddaughters serve full-time missions.

Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.

I love the female characters in 'She-Ra.' There isn't another show quite like it.

The product cycle for the Oculus Rift will be between the rapid six-month cycle of cell-phones and the slower seven-year cycle of consoles. It's rare to see a phone not coming out every year.