I want to transform state government. What it takes is a strong CEO type... A leader who can drive things.
I want to get me one of those titles.
Certainly, reputational cost is at stake, but we can think of other creative ways to perhaps impose costs as well.
Conciliate a covetous man by means of a gift, an obstinate man with folded hands in salutation, a fool by humouring him, and a learned man by truthful words.
I like to party at Christmas. We always have a duck, which my brother prepares.
I did a TV show that didn't last on ABC called 'The Zero Hour,' and my character was working at a magazine.
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
Every single cast has a couple bad eggs, or that person that everyone is making fun of or doesn't like.
Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
I'm going to stand in my truth no matter what.
Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress believed we could spend our way to prosperity, and I guess they still do.
Of course, fortune has its part in human affairs, but conduct is really much more important.
There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.
It's okay to laugh in the bedroom so long as you don't point.
Your campaign shouldn't just die the day you spend your last cent.
I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
Unfortunately, I like to feel a little stubble when I kiss. Women are too soft.
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it.
I swam my brains out.
I don't even like getting my picture taken because I feel terrible about the way I look. I'm so self-conscious about things.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
I'm looking forward to maybe playing the No. 1 in the world again now.
My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.
Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of god no matter what the conflict.
Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
However good an actor may be, he can't make a scene believable on his own, so it has to be a team work.
