"Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice."

“You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.”

“I want to be in control of drafting at least 80% the timing and cohesiveness of character and narrative. I want to be in control of giving you an experience, and want you to be acknowledged as an audience and can do things but only in a limited scope.”

“He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you.”

“I do believe in the value of ideas—and that eventually they get a man somewhere.”

“I think that we see Steve Jobs as the genius speaker in the mock black turtleneck with the round glasses, sort of beautifully delivering his new product, and I think that for people to understand that he started in a garage.”

“I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.”

Source : "'American Idol's' Haley Reinhart Talks New Album, Guest Stars (Exclusive)". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 07, 2012.

“I had a choice. I could become an economist & managing director. I choose to do something else. I would have become much, much richer than I am. I choose to not do that. It's that simple.”

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“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.”