When I'm having a really rough day, I take it out in the gym. It releases so many endorphins in your body.
I'm very easy going and low maintenance when it comes to my hair.
There is always a new flavor of the month, especially in film.
I started in dance classes when I was, like, seven years old. And the arts in general, it kept me not only off the street, I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, so it kept my mind focused. It kept me passionate about something. So I wasn't easily d...
One figure can sometimes add up to a lot.
A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.
Generally speaking, companies get into bankruptcy as a kind of meritocracy. Somebody made some sort of big mistake, to get into bankruptcy, and very often, a part of the mistake is too much leverage.
My wife Hillary sometimes accuses me of trying to reinvent the 19th century. In some ways she's right because I like things that I can understand and that aren't too complicated.
I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.
You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.
Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs.
There is no evidence that more regulation makes things better. The most highly regulated industry in America is commercial banking, and that didn't save those institutions from making terrible decisions.
Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.
If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.
It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.
Why argue about things you can't prove?
If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
Sometimes in the heart of the summer, I look at people with their faces shaved and think it'd be nice, but once you get used to it, it's not as hot. Most guys say it gets itchy, but once you grow it out into a big man beard, the itching is gone.
I think my father had a lot of anti-establishment in him. He came through the '60s.
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.