I was mortified that she disappeared before me, sitting at her writing desk, surrounded by classical music. A cerut in hand and a glass of whisky within reach.
Now the gossip must stop. Now I’m tired of getting sucked into your columns. Then you must sue me if you dare.
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
I had to go through so horribly much before I found out to skip where the fence is lowest.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
Sometimes it’s strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I’m surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it’s not satire, it’s bullying.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.
Never listen to girls on how to get girls. If you’re trying to catch fish you don’t ask another fish. You ask the Fisherman.
I was raised in a free and liberal home. I have never felt threatened by other cultures, other colors or other ways of thinking. In 30 years, there will be more and more colors in the minds of the people who walk around our streets. And we want to move around a lot more ourselves. It is also necessary that we open up if we are to remain strong at that time.
An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.
It’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.
If one is silent for too long, then the tongue withers
I’ve never tried that before, so I can probably do it well!
Our modern world places such heavy demands on our time and attention that the need to remember our responsibilities to others is greater than ever.
I don’t hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hate the sexy image, hate the pictures of me on stage, hate the big vulgar person. On stage, I act the whole time I’m there. As soon as I come out of those songs, I’m Tina again.
The most memorable moments in life are the ones you never planned.
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
It is better to be one of those who sometimes go wrong than one of those who do not go at all.
I can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
It’s – sorry my French – some damn nonsense. There are certainly also pig farmers and cattle farmers who go in clean boots and clothes. You will probably find most of them, so that is why it is nonsense.
Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep