I have an education, I went to college, you know?

I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning. Because he's pale and would probably want to be tan.

I like a guy who makes me laugh, doesn't care about the fame, the show, he just likes me for me, he likes Nicole.

I always wanted my own fragrance because I could never find the right scent for me. At home, I would always mix bottles of my favorite fragrances to create a unique and different scent.

I think you see more of like, the party side of me, which I call Snooki, it's kind of my alter ego.

People go tanning because they like to feel tan. You feel more sexy when you're tan and I don't understand why you would tax on that, because you're making yourself feel more happy about yourself.

When you're tanner, you feel hotter and sexier. You should try it

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.

It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are you?' Sometimes, I confuse even myself.

It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.

Ten years from now, I would like to see myself successful as a brand, like Jessica Simpson, with babies running around and a beautiful husband and my own reality show

It is essential that you follow your own idea of passion, even if to others it looks like suffering.

Her grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, stripped her body and her face.

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.

Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue

I love radio, and I haven't done it - other than the actual 'Doctor Who' - for so long now. It takes a different kind of discipline and a different kind of enjoyment, really.

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'