"Growing up I didn't watch movies."

“The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war entered the scene and we are still suffering the consequences of a man-driven, self-serving, short-sighted environment.”

“I get enough fashion news in my professional life. I like interiors during my downtime.”

Source : Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

“When I tell somebody to do something I'm not going to get a lobbyist calling me the next day to say please don't do that even though it's good for America.”

“You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.”

Source : John Henninger Reagan's speech (January 15, 1861), as quoted in the Congressional Globe, 36th Congress, 2nd Session (p. 391); also quoted in Kenneth M. Stampp "The Causes of the Civil War" (p. 89), 1959.

“With every passing year we discover more evidence to support Darwin's revolutionary hypothesis that the cognitive and emotional lives of animals differ only by degree, from the fishes to the birds to the monkeys to humans.”

“Demonstrating faith and optimism in the child or adolescent's ability to work things out in their own time and in their own way can be very difficult but it is possible to do this while also offering assistance.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com

“It's very important to be as transparent, as real as possible, as a person.”

“I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must tell you now, I believe this attack will fail. No 15,000 men ever made could take that ridge. It's a distance of more than a mile, over open ground. When the men come out of the trees, they will be under fire from Yankee artillery from all over the field. And those are Hancock's boys! And now, they have the stone wall like we did at Fredericksburg. - Lieutenant General James Longstreet to General Robert E. Lee after the initial Confederate victories on day one of the Battle of Gettysburg.”

Source : "Fictional character: Lieutenant General James Longstreet". "Gettysburg", www.imdb.com. October 8, 1993.