Instruction is important.
A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.
You shouldn't say mean things to people before they kill you. It's being a sore loser.
There's a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.
Don't stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane.
You'll find a way. You'll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can't, you'll have friends who will.
A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.
The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by the rigidity of traditional scholarship, is as exciting and surprising as a bestselling murder mystery; I simply couldn't put it down. Through scholarly brilliance and passion, Adrienne Mayor has opened the door to a forgotten world of gender equality, and her book ought to be required reading in every college history course.
We are all forever a work in progress. I mean, that is the truth. You are forever in your whole life a work in progress, and forever there is a 12-year-old that's driving in to work with you every day. And you are still on the school playground and you are still whatever it is in college or you are still wondering why someone didn't return your call or ask you out.
Easy street is a blind alley.
I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.