We cleared many of their towns and cities and rural areas of al-Qaida Iraq and other insurgents.
Don't ever lose sight of who you are and your own power.
It's important that women support women. It gives me a great sense of well-being to know that I can make a difference in people's lives.
Don't rest on your laurels. There's always going to be someone behind you who's going to be better than you. So you need to get out there and keep working.
When I was younger there was something in me. I had passion. I may not have known what I was going to do with that passion, but there was something-and I still feel it. It's this little engine that roars inside of me and I just want to keep going and going.
When I bought the [WNBA] team, I saw that no one really cared about them. Like the locker facilities that these young women have to work in-they weren't right. I want to give them the best locker room facilities and show them they're valued-because if you show them value, they're going to perform better. And this goes for all women, not just basketball players.
I think women are often taken for granted.
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.