1. At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
  2. Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
  3. Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
  4. Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
  5. In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
  6. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
  7. It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
  8. Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
  9. Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
  10. Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
  11. Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipatio
  12. The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
  13. The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
  14. Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
  15. We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

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  1. Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
  2. Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
  3. Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
  4. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
  5. Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
  6. If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
  7. In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
  8. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
  9. Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
  10. Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
  11. Luck marches with those who give their very best.
  12. Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
  13. Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.
  14. Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
  15. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
  16. Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
  17. Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
  18. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
  19. The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
  20. We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
  21. When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

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  1. A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
  2. Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
  3. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
  4. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
  5. Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
  6. Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
  7. Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
  8. Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.
  9. I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.
  10. I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.
  11. I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
  12. If you can laugh together, you can work together.
  13. In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative fight, flee - or laugh.
  14. Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
  15. Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
  16. Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
  17. Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
  18. Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.
  19. To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
  20. Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

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  1. A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
  2. Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.
  3. Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.
  4. After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
  5. But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.
  6. But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
  7. Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.
  8. Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.
  9. I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
  10. I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.
  11. I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
  12. I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
  13. I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
  14. If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
  15. If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
  16. Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
  17. Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
  18. Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
  19. Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.
  20. Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
  21. The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
  22. The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.
  23. There is still a future with music, because people want music.
  24. We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

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  1. A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
  2. Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
  3. If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
  4. In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
  5. Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
  6. Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
  7. Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
  8. Marriage is not a noun it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
  9. Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
  10. Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
  11. No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
  12. No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
  13. The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
  14. The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
  15. The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
  16. We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
  17. When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
  18. Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
  19. You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

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  1. I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
  2. I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
  3. I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
  4. I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
  5. I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.
  6. I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
  7. It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
  8. Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.
  9. Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
  10. South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.
  11. Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
  12. Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.
  13. The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
  14. The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
  15. There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
  16. Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
  17. We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
  18. When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

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  1. All the sudden high-impact stress can really take a toll on your body. So if you still want to be active and get in a good workout, go to a yoga class or pilates class, or get in some strength and conditioning.
  2. Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.
  3. I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.
  4. I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.
  5. I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.
  6. It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.
  7. I've always been the long-term relationship, go-home-and-meet-mom girl.
  8. Marriage is not about age it's about finding the right person.
  9. The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.
  10. There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.
  11. Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep.

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  1. A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
  2. A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
  3. Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
  4. For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
  5. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
  6. He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
  7. I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
  8. I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
  9. Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
  10. Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
  11. It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
  12. May you live all the days of your life.
  13. Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
  14. No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
  15. Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
  16. Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
  17. The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
  18. The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
  19. Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
  20. Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
  21. We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
  22. When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
  23. Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
  24. Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

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  1. All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
  2. Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
  3. Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
  4. I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
  5. If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
  6. If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
  7. In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
  8. Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
  9. No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
  10. No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
  11. No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
  12. On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
  13. Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
  14. The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
  15. The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
  16. The most violent element in society is ignorance.
  17. The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
  18. The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
  19. There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
  20. To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
  21. Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

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  1. A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
  2. A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
  3. Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
  4. For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
  5. I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
  6. I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
  7. I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
  8. I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
  9. If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
  10. If you think you can do it, you can.
  11. Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
  12. Leap, and the net will appear.
  13. Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
  14. Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
  15. Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
  16. The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
  17. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
  18. The secret of happiness is something to do.
  19. The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
  20. To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
  21. To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
  22. Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

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  1. Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
  2. And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
  3. Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
  4. But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
  5. Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
  6. For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.
  7. Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
  8. I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
  9. I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
  10. I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.
  11. I think politics come out of psychology.
  12. I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
  13. I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
  14. It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
  15. My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
  16. Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
  17. Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
  18. The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
  19. The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
  20. The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.
  21. There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
  22. You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
  23. Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

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  1. A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.
  2. Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
  3. But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
  4. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
  5. I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.
  6. I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
  7. If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.
  8. If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
  9. Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
  10. It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
  11. One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?
  12. The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable.The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
  13. This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!
  14. We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
  15. We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

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  1. After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
  2. Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
  3. However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
  4. I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
  5. I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
  6. I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
  7. I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.
  8. I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
  9. I never pursued being 'famous.'
  10. I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
  11. I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.
  12. Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
  13. So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
  14. Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women.
  15. The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.
  16. The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.
  17. The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
  18. Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
  19. Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
  20. We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
  21. You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
  22. You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

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  1. I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
  2. I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
  3. I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
  4. I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
  5. I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
  6. I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.
  7. I learned to change my accent in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
  8. I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
  9. I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
  10. I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
  11. I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
  12. I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
  13. I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
  14. I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
  15. I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.
  16. I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
  17. It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
  18. I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.
  19. One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
  20. Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
  21. That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
  22. The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
  23. There's no religion but sex and music.
  24. Yoga is almost like music in a way there's no end to it.

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  1. A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
  2. Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
  3. All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
  4. Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
  5. Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
  6. Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.
  7. I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
  8. I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
  9. I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
  10. I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
  11. I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.
  12. I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
  13. I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.
  14. I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.
  15. I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
  16. I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
  17. I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.
  18. It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.
  19. It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.
  20. Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
  21. Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
  22. Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.
  23. That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
  24. There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

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