Joe Quotes

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a characterization.

Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.

I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

After you're finished celebrating your 60th birthday, feel free to stop supporting your children, and start supporting your parents!

You have to be true to the game you're covering, whether its being lite at times - I certainly try to be that way - but it is limiting because you're fitting it in around what's going on in the game.

Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

Any coach worth his salt will take a look at that and say, 'I'll take my chances with that'

Everyone is more focused on presenting the best that the league has to offer, rather than the worst.

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space.

Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.

It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the dirt on his can.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

Judd Apatow, Conan O'Brien ... taking what you think is funny, and then adding another layer to it. That's kind of my sensibility. Those are the guys that make me laugh.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.

If you drink like a fish, don't drive: swim.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

I agree with Donna Brazile who said about Benghazi: "We got to preven dis from hapinin agen. "

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

I would have had a clause in my contract; I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, "If the president leaves, I'm leaving." That'd be the bottom line.

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There's no shame in being tested for AIDS.

The president has a big stick.

If I can invent a phrase then this Democrat [Bernie] Sanders takes her [Hillary Clinton] off the hook on the emails. Could there still be an FBI indictment? Probably not.