I haven't worn jewelry since one of the front teeth I had made into an earring became no longer necessary because I lost the ear.
While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects - because they were deemed illegal by the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations.
China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.
When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.
One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
I'm not getting recognized because I posed in a swimsuit edition of some magazine, but because of what I do on the field, and that's important to me.
There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.
I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.
We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.
It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light.
If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.
Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
