I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Robert Mapplethorpe

There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.

Douglas Trumbull

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine

Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.

Lynn Austin

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Joseph Sobran

Music and the music business are two different things.

Erykah Badu

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Maya Angelou

Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.

Dee Dee Myers

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - even poverty - you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

Marcus Valerius Martial