I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.
History is written by the dreamers, not the doubters.
It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.
You know, I'm, like, a smart person.
Don't be so petty. Sometimes you have to do business with people you don't like. It doesn't mean you have to be like them or like them.
We have had a lot of problems where you look at San Bernardino, you look at Orlando, you look at the World Trade Center, you look at so many different things.
I had crazy experience when I was talking to voters at the Nevada caucus the other night in Vegas. Voter after voter after voter, these are Republican primary voters, caucus goers, saying I don`t listen to Fox anymore. I can`t trust Fox anymore. I`m over them. And these were all [Donald] Trump supporters who he had successfully sort of pried their trust away from the thing they have been trusting for years.
I can't watch American Idol. . . it's like karaoke without the booze.
Who hit you?" "Why, so you can go beat him up?" "One of the fringe benefits of being my human servant is my protection. " "I don't need your protection, Jean-Claude. " "He hurt you. " "And I shoved a gun into his groin and made him tell me everything he knew," I said.
Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.
[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.