I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go.

I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.

I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning. Because he's pale and would probably want to be tan.

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public.