I'm the type of person who loves to stay busy, even in my off-season.
I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
A cynic is a person who sees things as it is; he has no concept of future or past.
If you learn to use the power of love then you're the most powerful person.
Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.
Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.
I'm a person who enjoys the hands-on experience of anything I do. Get your hands dirty - that's the thing that drives and motivates me.
I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.
I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.
I don't consider myself a food person. I'm no Bobby Flay. I'm no Emeril or Paula Deen, and I'm certainly not Rachael Ray.
Ultimately, the perfect meal is when those things come together - circumstance, the food, ambiance, and you're with the person that you want to be with.
I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.
I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.
Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.
