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The real driver of my golf game is family. The family that plays together stays together, at least literally so.
The way that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform, determined to do something
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
In the world of screens, we're all tired of screens. That's why I think that live events have become so popular.
I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9.
I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.
Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.
I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human.
I love this country. I love tradition. And I just want to make sure our country's heading in the right direction.
When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.
Madison Avenue makes us addicts of consumerism, using glass wampum to steal our capacity to direct our own lives.
For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
After what others would call a fun day out together, we feel as if we have been at the Red Cross, donating blood.
Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.
In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.
There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.
The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.
Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.
If you liked this broadcast, we hope you'll watch it again tomorrow night and maybe tell your neighbors about it.
One dress I love - for me, it's a little edgy - it's sleeveless. It's black and it's leather. I've worn it on TV.
One of the things I love most about the Capitol Hill beat is that I have regular access to the lawmakers I cover.
Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.
I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.
Every decade or so, Hollywood has an epiphany. It turns out faith-based audiences enjoy going to the movies, too.
When the big guys in Washington dream of transforming the world, it’s the little guys who come home in body bags.
I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.
There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.
It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.
I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Point of view is present in anything I write, but I really try to let the subject and facts speak for themselves.
When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan.
This is what Newt Gingrich has wrought - is a politics in which it's very easy to destroy and very hard to build.
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.
I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.