"Everything in this country [the US] has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts slit up to their ass. It has nothing to do with thinking or with being a human being. There is life in mature people; it's not all over at 24Â½."

-- Lauren Bacall

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“Everyone who owns a home recognizes the need for fire insurance. We hope and pray that there will never be a fire. Nevertheless, we pay for insurance to cover such a catastrophe, should it occur. We ought to do the same with reference to family welfare.”
“I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.”

Source : "It's Their Party". Interview with Steven Smith, articles.latimes.com. June 07, 1998.
“The information is in the people, not in your head.”
“When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar.”
“The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others.”

Source : "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Williamsburg, Virginia, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.
“Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Our dear Imam said that the occupying regime [Israel] must be wiped off the map.... We cannot compromise over the issue of Palestine.... I have no doubt that the new wave that has started in Palestine, and we witness it in the Islamic world too, will eliminate this disgraceful stain from the Islamic world.”

Source : "The World Without Zionism". Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at the Islamic Student Associations conference at the Interior Ministry in Tehran, www.nytimes.com. October 26, 2005.
“People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.”

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