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We want to raise the art of living well.

I just want to be written about as a normal artist.

By itself, 1 Corinthians 15 just wouldn't mean much. He wants the appearances of 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 to be read as if they had in parentheses after them 'See Luke 24; Matthew 28; John 21.'

Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to do.

Take what you want, and pay for it.

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

I wanted to be a plumber.

You're a chip shot away from everything you've ever wanted.

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie f. There is something oddly Roman about him. ... The lesser races must be civilized and they must be punished... Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

When Wal-Mart brings water down to the Katrina victims, it's not doing that to be nice; it's doing it to make larger profits and to increase the value of its shares. If its actions are not accomplishing those objectives, the shareholders can sue the executives, and sue them successfully, because it is illegal for them to act on behalf of any other reason than increasing the value of their shares. There is nothing wrong with that. That is the way that they were created and the way we want them to function to increase prosperity in the market.

It's become this really odd thing where even some of the folks who build the things that we wear for entertainment are contacted by DARPA-esque companies who are saying, "Yeah, we're really doing that, and we want to talk to you."

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Walk around the right corner in Sin City and you can find anything you want.

Los Angles is not my favorite city. Well, I shouldn't say that... I love to visit it, on a temporary basis. It's just such a company town! You can't go anywhere and not run into someone who wants to be in the business.

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.