If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the...

I didn’t want that 15 minutes of fame moment like, ‘Oh, she said she was gay.’

I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,’ then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.

They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.

My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, ‘Look, it’s not going to be scandalized. I’m not going to talk about anybody like a dog....

It was a big decision to leave the system because many people said I would fail.

But all that having been said, you can’t, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can’t be in all places at all times.

When I was 14 years old, I was with my parents at a restaurant. Some people came in and said, ‘Would you like to be a model?’ I went to see them, and they said,...

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‘Crime and Punishment’. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‘If this...

I turned to my mom and said, ‘I’m going to be a martial arts movie star.’ She didn’t believe me, and neither did my dad. They both thought I would grow out of it. That...

I was cursed with age, really. You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and it kind of sticks with you for the rest of your life. So, I believe...

I want it to be said when I leave this world that ‘he was not just a money-making machine.’

I said in court a long time ago that I didn’t see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.

The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box...

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn’t show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said ‘hEllO woRlD’....

I’ve always said I’ve wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson – touring when I’m 70. To do that, you can’t...

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

It’s funny, one of the reasons why I never wear my glasses any more is that, when I was younger, a guy once said that he liked me until he found out that I wear...

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

When my husband came to my parents’ house for the first time, he asked, ‘Why is everyone screaming? Why are they so angry?’ I said, ‘No one’s angry. This is just how we communicate.’

I wrote the chorus specifically for ‘Same Love’ as a narration of my story. I decided to release ‘She Keeps Me Warm’ as an extension of the chorus because I felt like there was more...

Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, ‘Children’s Letters to God.’ You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, ‘Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I...

All my Doctor’s said I should become a model.

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and...

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree,’ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United States. And then, of course, we had the Great Depression.

Yeah, I know I’m ugly… I said to a bartender, ‘Make me a zombie.’ He said ‘God beat me to it.’

Weight gain can happen at any point in time, and it is something that you are dealing with anyway, and it is OK. It is ridiculous to have this dictate your very being because I...

Pete Davidson – he’s in the movie ‘Trainwreck.’ He has a small part in it. I told Lorne Michaels about him, said he was really funny.

I wasn’t happy with the outcome in Vietnam. Now, I’ve never said that, but, you know, I’m getting to an age where I think I’d better start saying it… And I don’t mean that to...

I can’t worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it’s just their opinions, but if I said I don’t hear it, or it doesn’t bother me a...

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

I truly don’t know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime.

Today, the future of Venezuela won and, as we said, we repeat to everyone: there is a path, there is a path for progress, for the future, to make Venezuela a greater country.

I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this.

There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‘You’re better than the Cassius...

I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, ‘Hey, I don’t mind you using it, but at least give it a name.’ When he hits it, the announcers...

I said to myself, ‘I’ve waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I’m missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.’

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to...

Health-wise, I couldn’t have said what my life expectancy would’ve been if I’d just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn’t know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and...

When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: ‘What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?’

For the most part, magic secrets are available on a level that’s overwhelming and frightening, and they are very accessible if you do the tiniest bit of digging. But, that said, there’s a certain group...

I don’t know why but they you said it I started believing it.

People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and...