In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.
My mother-in-law said, 'One day I will dance on your grave.' I said 'I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.'
My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
I don't disagree with anything I've ever said. Why in God's name would I disagree with something I've said?
I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.
I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.
He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'
Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust.
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.
Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.
Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.
Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.
A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
fitting in is for losers. said the friend to the other friend, and the other friend said yeah and that's why prison is so crowded.
For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.'
I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.
Said Opie Read to E.P. Roe, "How do you like Gaboriau?" "I like him very much indeed!" Said E.P. Roe to Opie Read.
I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said it looked like fun.
