Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.
I guess I'm a semi-retired person. I work out of my house. I'm a skier in the winter - downhill and cross country. I have a place in Montana for the down-hilling.
I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
I've never had a teenage rebellion; I'm not that type of person. I always work out my problems in a conscientious way.
I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.
I have a personal barber, Mister C. He lives in Brooklyn, but he travels with me. He used to cut Lady Gaga's hair, but he fired her to work for me.
On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
How can women be as thin as we are? We have personal trainers to work us out. We have specially prepared meals.
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.
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Major T. J. "King" Kong: Well, boys, I reckon this is it - nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies. Now look, boys, I ain't much of a hand at makin' speeches, but I got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is goin' on back there. ...
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It is time we admitted, from kings and presidents on down, that there is no evidence that any of our books was authored by the Creator of the universe. The Bible, it seems certain, was the work of sand-strewn men and women who thought the earth was f...
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I knew that to really minister to Rwanda's needs meant working toward reconciliation in the prisons, in the churches, and in the cities and villages throughout the country. It meant feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, caring for the young, b...
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We are living in a time when sensitivities are at the surface, often vented with cutting words. Philosophically, you can believe anything so as you do not claim it a better way. Religiously, you can hold to anything, so long as you do not bring Jesus...
