I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.
On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.
Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. if you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.
I just feel that after the season that we have to sit down - as well as myself, everybody - and try and look at what gives us the best opportunity to move going forward.
I try to keep my confidence on the charts, but I'm a confident guy as well. You've got to be that way. If you don't think that you're the best, then you won't perform that way.
I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.
My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.
I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.
I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.
Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.
I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.
