Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
I've been stealing scenes all my life.
I'd never taken a job purely for money - I felt that would kill me - but I was afraid that I was heading that way. Then, my brother passing away was the final thing that kicked me over. It reminded me that life is short, and you'd better do what you want while you have a chance.
I live a fairly simple life, and that didn't change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didn't buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation.
The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most of my time incognito, and in fact were you to pass me in the street you would think I was just another dowdy suburban mom.
Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
I was such a private person before I started 'The Talk.' I don't know what happened! It almost feels like I've started a second life. In my previous lifetime, I didn't talk about stuff. Now I'll discuss anything. It's crazy!
My life is scheduled to the minute. I used to be notoriously hard to get a hold of. But now, it would be irresponsible for me to say, 'I'm not checking my phone.'
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life.
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.
I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.
Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.
I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.
I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.
I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.
I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.
My dad dedicated his life to getting across the wildlife message, and I love that I can carry on his legacy. I want to make sure his message never dies.
I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.
I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.
I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.
I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.
This is the first time in my life I've had hair this short. It's always been down to my waist. I can't hide behind my hair any more.
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
I'm usually just enjoying life.