I find my inspiration in myself.
You must unlearn what you have learned.
If you love someone set them free. If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.
Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
If you have paparazzi, you know you’ve gotten somewhere.
I was young when I first went to America. I was 19 years old, and I went crazy. I met The GTOs and my mind just snapped. I’m from a nowhere town in the Midlands and here were these girls with bare breasts blatantly coming on, and of course we went crazy.
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.
The prospect of having to sit through one of Rachmaninov’s extended symphonies or piano concertos tends, quite frankly, to depress me. All those notes, and to what end?
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said ‘For a man, you’re kind of ignorant.
Injustice in the end produces independence.
Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
My career has been a combination of hard work and timing. Working with Stevie Wonder at the Kennedy Center Honors was timing. The Tonight Show was timing. Carnegie Hall, that was timing. My marriage was timing. I was ready, I wanted to know what it was like.
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
