We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.
He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
I enjoy being different.
It's nice when you can enjoy yourself and make people smile.
I think it's helped me that I've always been very grounded, very down to earth. Lots of my friends are people I've known from school, and when I'm away from football, they're the ones who I knock about with.
I feel proud I was part of the old school and still around in the new school.
My nickname, when I was 15 years old in the Coast Guard, they called me 'Hollywood' because I went to the movies all the time. It was such great escapism. That's why I ran away from home.
I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.
A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
A person's life is hopefully more than just one thing.
No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.
I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wearing extra-small Dolfin shorts, a tank top and leg warmers, I get a little upset.
Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.
When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.
The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.
Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.
The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.
I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.
I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.
Life is like Pretzel, there is no output.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
The ninth, the worst circle of the Inferno - Dante intended it for traitors.
I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it.
Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.
Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking.
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
Jeans represent democracy in fashion.
There can be nothing without love. No money, no power. Love is very important. When you wake up in the morning, you need to know that somebody else is waking up, thinking of you.
This is the problem with the world today: Nobody wants to take risks, to risk being themselves.
This is very much my philosophy as a fashion designer. I have never believed in design for design's sake. For me, the most important thing is that people actually wear my clothes. I do not design for the catwalk or for magazine shoots - I design for customers.
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
