Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
I was on vacation in New York when my agent called asking if I wanted to go right in and audition for 'Billy Elliot,' so I was lucky to be there.
In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.
I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.
I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.
There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
I imagine if aliens came down to Earth, they'd actually be quite tall; people seem to get everything right about extraterrestrials but the size!
Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.
the problem with the world, is, far too many people drain their energy into what is wrong with their life; instead of holding gratitude for what's right in their life.
Some of us are born to live and to fight, Echo. Others are born to fight for their right to live. When those two collide, there’s hell to pay.
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead.
If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail. Now that's no kind of behavior for a planet.
Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.
The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'
An expert was once a beginner. Success does not lie in the results but in efforts. Being the best is not that all important. Doing it right is all what matters.
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
