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I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.

One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's a shame, because if I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.I'd dream about the way you smell and how your dark hair feels like silk between my fingers. I'd dream about the smoothness of your skin and the fierceness of your lips when we kiss. Without dreams, I have to be content with my own imagination– which is almost as good. I can picture all of those things perfectly, as well as how it'll be when I take your life from this world.

In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

The secret of being happy is not longing for it!” 

It’s incredible that the layout of the centre of Chester, for instance, is still essentially that of the original Roman fort.

I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.

I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.

I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue.

Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.

It’s not about whether God exists or not. It’s not like that. To believe, or not to believe, that is the question.

Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.

I've been a scuba diver since I was 16 and I think that was one of the reasons they chose me.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.

I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have consequences.

In theatre, I get comedy or nice lead roles. I don't understand a grey or negative role.

I did go to Beijing, with a two-year assignment. I stayed four years. And those four years were the most formative four years in my life. What I learned was more than I would have learned in 10 years in America or Europe, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

We're all on-board the same planetary spaceship, but together, we can move mountains.