Are you willing to push the right buttons even if it means being perceived as the villain?

Success? I don’t know what that word means. I’m happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody’s eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me.

I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice – their humor, their fatalism, their… well, that over-used term...

My name is Arsenio. That’s a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, ‘the public option,’ or ‘a public option,’ you’ll get 100 different impressions about what that means.

‘Writing’ always means ‘not writing’ to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because writing anything down and then handing it over to a third party –...

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means...

When I am spotted somewhere, it means that my characterizations haven’t covered up Eleanor Parker the person. I prefer it the other way around.

So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know...

Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.

The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation – which speculates upon the labor of people – will always find the means for its existence.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a...

Ask me not, ‘Are you rightwing,’ but ask me ‘Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?’ Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in...

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things,...

Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.

Success for me means being able to work. I don’t look at so much at what I’ve done as much as I look to what I will do.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn’t mean that at all. It means that you’re afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do...

We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

However, I don’t by any means suggest that I’m always playing myself.

Heterosexuality is the traditional way of expressing love and romance; the act of enjoyment between opposite sexes. It is not only for the purpose of enjoyment and pleasure, but also the human general survival. Whilst...

Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.

Whether it’s repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common – they exist to keep women ‘in their place.’ To make sure that...

Federal assistance helps millions of Americans escape poverty every year by providing the stability needed to take advantage of new opportunities. In fact, it is our safety net that allows full participation in the economy....

There is no one in al-Nahda that is ‘violence is a means of change or to keep power.’ Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in...

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first ‘Alfred Kropp’ book as an adult novel, which everyone loved but no one would publish – until I changed my...

Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself...

I’m not a vegetarian by any means; I eat fish. But the problem with shark finning is they catch the shark, cut their fins and throw them back in the ocean, and to me, that’s...

I am a follower of Jesus Christ. The Bible is my primary way of knowing Him and what it means to follow Him. And I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible...

I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn’t mean that I’m less girly, it just means...

Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the sights, smells and sounds around me. It means I can...

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

I’m a suspicious mulatto, which means I’m too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.

Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and...

For starters, let’s dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg – sorry – for a good book on the subject, or similar tasteless – sorry,...

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices – you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.

My career means, if you’re a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there’s one Indian in your rearview mirror.

Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at ‘Santa Monica’ as a thing outside of itself, because it isn’t just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a...

We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up...

The Law of Triviality… briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

All of us love applause, and so we should – it means that the listener likes us!

Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the place and that is a challenge.