Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis. (In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)
Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.
You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.
It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.
Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.
I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.
Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.
Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.
If someone is angry with you, it has a reason. To know just put yourself in the same condition and at the place of that one and talk the same arguments
To avoid being disappointed, avoid placing your expectations on others. Love lets them be who they are and it allows them to react the way they want to react.
I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.
Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
