"What about the golf courses?What about the huge foreign bank loans?What about the condos and the apartments that they sell, the promoting and the trademarks?[ Jason] Chaffetz should be investigating the president-elect's impeding violation of the constitution, not this poor government official who is just trying to do his job. And Mr. Chaffetz has endorsed that unconstitutional plan."

“I eat as often as I can. I'll eat even if I don't feel like eating.”

“Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.”

“We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I possessed. A lifetime of vows and heart-felt disciplines had prepared me well, for in that kiss I sealed with all my soul the fate before me, embracing a mystery clothed in warm and yielding female flesh. Holding only the moment, with neither thought nor care for the future, I kissed her, and drank deep the strong wine of desire.”

“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”

Source : "Taking Charge : Every Woman's Action Guide to Personal, Political and Professional Success". Book by Joan Steinau Lester )p. 76), 1996.

“I won't be going to any New Year's Eve parties because I think they're naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties.”

“We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.”

“Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is absolutely surprising.”

“To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.”

Source : Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.18, John Wiley & Sons