Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired at the age of eighteen.
It is only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize that there is always a way to solve problems without using violence.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
The women’s struggle today is an individual struggle (…) You can’t demand equal pay if you also want to have a long maternity leave, stay at home when they are sick and be there primarily for the children.
Suicide is never the answer. You must outlive your enemies.
When peace comes, remember it will be for us, the children of today, to make the world of tomorrow a better and happier place.
Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep
Trust me, setting things up right from the beginning will avoid a ton of tears and heartache.
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.
If you fail in your preparation, you might as well prepare to fail.
If it’s dancing, or anything else in life my darling, that matters to you, then don’t let anything or anyone stop you.
We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we’ll go upstairs and sing until daylight – gospel songs. We grew up with it…It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.
You can change wives, politics, religion… but you can never, ever change your favorite football team.
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts.
I’ve never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there, it’s a new audience, and they haven’t seen us before. So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
Maybe it should have changed me more [to become a mother, ed.]. I sometimes wonder if I was at home enough with my children, but it’s no use now, because it can’t be helped. They have survived.
My legacy is that I stayed the course… from start to finish because I believed in something inside of me.
It may be that you can not buy love for money – but you can buy something similar to confusion.
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
I clearly remember the first time I had sex. I still have the receipt at home.
Til we meet again, may God bless you. Adios.
Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change.
By 2030, we will be working for as little as 15 hours a week.
Elegance is not about being noticed, it’s about being remembered.