Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.
I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.
The action stuff is only good if you get the character stuff in there as well. Sometimes that get lost in amongst all the trying to make stuff blow up.
The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.
Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.
The measurement of good policy is the well-being of the community. I saw the human faces of failed policies, and they weren't smiling.
One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.
The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.
Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous.
Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.
I just believe that if I work hard and do well, who knows what the future holds?
I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
I look forward to continuing to represent the people I'm currently serving, as well as the new communities that will be a part of this district in the future.
