As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting, I'm just aware in the back of my head what an editor might want.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.

I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel.

One has to look for one's passion. It's not going to come up and smack you on the head.

A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest of us.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

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The beloved is the ultimate fetish.

I've pretty much grown up to hide my emotions for the most part.

When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know its got legs.

God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...