“To me, figure skating is a diving sport. It's a sport made by the gods. It inspires people to cry, it inspires people to cheer, it pulls the emotions out of people.”
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“I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't compute.”
“There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter—there is no charm or bar against it.”
“I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.”
“There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.”
“If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.”
“So few people can think and talk at the same time.”
“they're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner.”
“No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.”
“What I know how to do is nurture and help people discover the best opportunities.”
“[In 2004 on being at TBWA Chiat Day for 30 years.] Different people are different in terms of the way they're made. I knew since the day I arrived at Chiat Day that I was at home, and that I was at a place where I could prove my talent and my ability... I am also married for 35 years too, so it could just be how I am.”
“The more you have, the more people want to use you and damage you.”
“People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.”
“The conversation should've been about middle class people. The conversation should've been about how to raise the minimum wage and strengthen Social Security. But then we started talking about this whole email stuff again. And now the outcome is that, you know, Donald Trump has somebody who he's looking at to put on his Cabinet who's a lobbyist to privatize Social Security.”
“A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.”
“The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.”
“I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.”
“If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.”
“It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.”
“There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.”