Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.
It's a torturous time when you learn almost everything you really have to know about survival. The important thing to remember when you are living through it, however, is that you have absolutely no idea quite how smart and strong and beautiful the pain will make you. So go forth and suffer. . . you'll rule the world.
I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn't great for a happy life.
The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.
I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.
My best race is the 100 fly, but for the 50 you just have to go really fast one way so I really like it too. It's not the same strategy. For the 50 I just breathed once, so it's really different from the 100 fly.
Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.
We will build our military forces to a level that will be, I believe, stronger than ever before if I become president of the United States.
I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.