My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
→Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
→My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'
→Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.
→I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.
→Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.
→You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.
→We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.
→Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
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