When you were a teenager in Colorado, the way to be a punk rocker was to rip on Reagan and Bush and what they were doing and talk about how everyone in Colorado’s a redneck with a gun and all this stuff. – Trey Parker
‘White Collar’ is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a sometimes very funny way. – Tim DeKay
I’m not saying that people on welfare don’t contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active. – Tony Abbott
I started making music with my band in the ’80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way. – Yann Tiersen
That’s what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of. – Sam Raimi
No matter how bad you think you have it, there’s always – always somebody who’s got it way, way worse. – Vince Flynn
As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change. – Wayne Swan
Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised. – Steven Seagal
I really love a challenge, but in ‘Downton’ it was really hard going because there’s no CGI – what you see is what you get. These were real explosions right in front of our faces, and you just had to make sure that you cleared out of the way. – Thomas Howes
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind. – Thomas Reid
I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn’t be if it wasn’t for the way in which I was brought up. – Tracey Emin
The video maker doesn’t easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don’t like it and so on. – Stan Brakhage
There’s only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher. – Ted Williams
Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another. – Serj Tankian
You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that’s just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal. – Steve Albini
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don’t put psychotics in high places and we’ve got the problem solved. – Tom Wolfe
As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don’t get to do when I’m just acting. – Stanley Tucci
You can’t be responsible for the way people respond to you. You’re only responsible for yourself. – Victoria Principal
I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied. – Shane Koyczan