I'll just say it: I'm not the sharpest tool in the box. Being forced to go back to school is still a fear of mine.
I wouldn't say there is one specific designer I rock. It's more of the look of the shirt and what occasion and where I'm wearing it to.
When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'
I don't take any shorts. I don't say, 'Okay, it's good enough.' I try to get exactly what I'm hearing in my head to the tape, and I won't let it move until then.
I won't say that 'shotgun' is the word I'd prefer to use, but we certainly do a lot of investments.
But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.
It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.'
People say I'm shrill and strident.
Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.
As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
I say some silly things now and again.
I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.
I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.
I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.
I'm always pretty cautious when people say that one player could single-handedly help his side to a trophy.
When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.
