From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.
I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
I feel like, even if something goes wrong, I have confidence in myself and my team that we'll fix it.
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
You're a song written by the hands of God.
Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.
My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.
The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.
East Texas isn't known for producing quarterbacks. I was never really on the football circuit. I wasn't the type of guy that put my name out there.
Coach Reid is a great teacher. He understands how people learn, understands how to get people to get the concept of what the play is and why we're running it.
I didn't start playing football a lot until I was in high school. I played it in seventh and eighth grade, but I didn't play Pop Warner or anything.
Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.
Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.
Definitely, as a competitor, you want to get out there and play.
Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.
It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.
Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!
We have to make a shift from illegal economies to legal economies. Having the possibility for the growers to have a sustainable income based on new legal crops.
Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
The thing I'm most thankful for right now is my elastic waistband.
You can't have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.
I am not a fan of politics.
I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's not just them at war - it's also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
I don't have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally - I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.
The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.
My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.
I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
