When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I’m the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would’ve thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Oh, 1994, April 27. There won’t be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

In fact, you couldn’t give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

Even Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

I think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the ‚perreos‘ of Plan B.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

Going home helps the content.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

I’ve got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton – him and Tupac. They were shooting the second ‚California Love‘ video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.