When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'
I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.
My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.
I think my father had a lot of anti-establishment in him. He came through the '60s.
People ask if my parents are hippies, but they're actually very conservative. A girl called Rebel sang at their wedding, and that's where my name came from.
Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.
Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse.
When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.
I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.
When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.
I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.
Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner
I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him.
But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.
I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.
Maybe family were the people who came looking for you when you were lost.
I never did have much, so having it rough came with the territory. I was conditioned for it.
