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Yes - Action is the key! Cuz - when we take action we get a result - it might not always be the result we want but nevertheless it's a result - something we can learn from.

I wouldn't mind having another shot at doing comedy, but I'm not sure that's the way I'd want to go.

What do I have to do to earn and deserve the key relationships that are going to get me where I want to go?

K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget.

Approach any room with the goal of making it the most attractive and comfortable, the room you want to live in the most.

I always wanted to be a hairdresser.

It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between...This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It's a living, breathing something -- you just have to want to learn its rhythm.

[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.

Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.

I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.

Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions.

Success is not for those who want it, nor those who need it, but for those who are utterly determined to seize it--whatever it takes.

The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.

You never want to be forced to do something. But the world around you starts to influence you in ways you never expected.

English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.

My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.

I feel very uncomfortable when I eat in restaurants. I'm obnoxiously polite with the waiters: 'I just want a tuna sandwich. I'll go get it. You sit here - I'll get it, I'll make it.

Want to be happy? Don't live competitively. Be content who you are. Live at peace with yourself and the losers below you.

I want to reach for 150 or 200 points this season, whichever comes first.

I realized that the only purpose to revolution is to be able to love who you want, how you want, when you want and where you want.

In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.

I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.

I wanted to go to the end of photography.

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.