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You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

God is just as merciful in the things He does not allow, as He is in the things He does.

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

If you cut down the forest, you know what happens: The whole of Asia turns into a desert. Without water, you're talking civil unrest, war, mud slides - the whole bloody lot.

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable. That's the fun of it: discovering what's next. I'm often surprised by plot developments I would not have dreamed of starting out, but that, in the course of the writing, come to seem inevitable.

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.

I never really expected to be controversial.

'The Last Seduction,' 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'While You Were Sleeping' did a lot to get me noticed for bigger roles.

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

Being on 'Veep,' it's so much fun, and I get to put so much creative input in there, but at the end of the day, what they say, I do.

We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.

By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.

Not every year is going to be the same and you just kind of have to just roll with the punches.