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One hot summer night in San Francisco, roughly 10 years ago, I was sitting in a crowded Pacific Heights restaurant when Alice Adams walked in with a man. She was about 60 at the time, and she was wearing a skirt that fell an inch or so above her knees and flat heels without stockings.

Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.

A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.

You can't conserve what you haven't got.

We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

I don't think I was a catalyst for the women's movement.

I am not as confident as the characters I play. I am a bit aloof. I am uncomfortable in social situations.

I’ve done work wearing full cold-weather gear hanging off of scientific towers in the Antarctic and the Arctic. Having to actually do small, delicate tasks on scientific equipment while you have no dexterity or tactile feedback is something that’s very transferrable.

I'm very proud of 'Platoon,' but at the end of it I was done. I was done.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

I'm on a health kick! I'm drawn to cheeseburgers, so I've got to just try and keep it on an even keel.

A music video is so different to doing a movie.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.