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He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

If anything, who I am and my background helped propel me and helped me stand out.

More flirtatious than me. I couldn't work it like she did.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Life is like a tattoo: we have a certain space available and that's it. The more we fill it with negative elements, the less space will be left for the positive ones. Shape your life like a work of art as you would do with your tattoos, and keep the good in it. Shape your dreams.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.

I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.

I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.

Future can alter your past too, perhaps no wise man has told this before.

We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always been that way. Even those history books enamored of the voyages of Christopher Columbus do not tell much about the builders of the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria or about the principle of the caravel. These spacecraft their designers builders navigators and controllers are examples of what science and engineering set free for well-defined peaceful purposes can accomplish. Those scientists and engineers should be role models for an America seeking excellence and international competitiveness. They should be on our stamps.

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

When I opened Milk Bar in November 2008, I was quite adamant about making sure the bakery was an honest reflection of life and food through my eyes. I had no intention beyond that.

Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

I've never been one of those programmers that works effectively on short amounts of sleep. I've always needed eight hours.

I started trading stocks, options and futures while I was at UCLA, using my earnings from working summers at the old IBM plant on Cottle Road. I never lost interest in how companies work. It's fundamental to who I am.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.