You sounded like Dolly parton on helium."(After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol, sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand...

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.

I have always believed that a single talented analyst, working very hard, can cover an amazing amount of investment landscape, and this belief remains unchallenged in my mind.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!

I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog.

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.