I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.
If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.
My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.
I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
I was going to the flea markets to buy furniture. It was getting done the way it was getting done - on a small scale and with a lot of soul and heart and risk. We did fashion like fashion was done before - spontaneously, with joy and freedom, and that's what created our identity.
But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.
I used to get headaches in 3D movies, and I didn't want the movie to give people headaches.