"I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young."

-- Elton John

#Alcohol Quotes #Drug Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.”

Source : "Joy Behar Show", www.cnn.com. October 9, 2009.
“I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.”
“Doing the right thing is important, which is where strategy comes in. But doing that thing wellâ€”executionâ€”is what sets companies apart. After all, every football play is designed to go for a huge gain. The reason it doesnâ€™t is because of executionâ€”people drop balls, miss blocks, go to the wrong place, and so forth. So, success depends on executionâ€”on the ability to get things done.”
“A lot of people consider 9/11 to be a tragedy, and in some ways it is, but I think there's also opportunity for a lot of humor there.”
“People come to me with ideas for shows, and I certainly am thinking of stuff all the time. And it's always like, you know, "Get high and drive a car!" Or "Get high and do this or that." It's always things like, "Well, that's a terrible idea to get high and do that." So, when they came to me with this, I was like, "Well, you're just sitting there and discussing cases."”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I think we have to think about strategies that will help kids who have disabilities.”
“Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?”
“The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions of men and women with some sort of Humanist philosophy who have consciously given up their lives for a social ideal.”

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