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You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.

I never listen to music when I write.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

I'm a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.

Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.

I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.'

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to appreciate each one for what they offer.

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.

I guess after college, I just got really into food. I also think going on the road doing stand-up makes you more into food. Because when you travel like that, one of the things to do is find really good places to eat.

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

I feel that I've grown up a little bit and I'm actually ready to settle down.

There's more to life than physical and material.

Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

I want to be with someone who wants to work as much as I do and who respects me like I respect him.

I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine.

The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.

I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

Do I have a small movie in me? Yeah, probably, when I'm 60. But I'm not Hal Ashby, I'm not Roman Polanski. I'm true to myself. Whether you like it or not.

I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

I don't listen to my own music at home.

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

American influence is not what it used to be.

Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.

I just want people to admit that there's no one way to live your life.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

I'm not as snarky as I used to be.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

I love to read about what my love life is really like.

I've still kind of maintained a low profile but people still kind of recognize you and will come up to you, and that's taken a bit of getting used to.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

You know I used to listen to music a lot more.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte, I didn't know what I was doing and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.

There's a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that's very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep.

Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'

We like lists because we don't want to die.

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.