Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Walter Lippmann

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

Emma Watson

I think the reward for conformity is everyone likes you but yourself.

Rita Mae Brown

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

Anthony Robbins

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Voltaire

I am really looking forward to driving another of my father?s car at the show in Rotterdam.

Nelson Piquet

We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.

Lawrence Eagleburger

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

I've dated all kinds of guys and didn't know who I'd end up with. But I kind of assumed it would be someone more like my dad than not.

Miranda Lambert

Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.

Tom Vilsack

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Alan Hovhaness

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

Rod Taylor