I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.
You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.
When we developed the 'Seinfeld' show, we took a bet on Jerry Seinfeld, who was not a household name. But Jerry had a voice. He was appearing on 'Late Night', on 'The Tonight Show', had some commercials out there, his voice of observational comedy, l...
I had a dream to become a mounted policewoman.
I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.
I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.
I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister.
Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.
There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'
When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.
I know people in gangs; I could have went down that route.
If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.
Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.
When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same.
How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there...
Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.
Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.
We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.
