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As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.

People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what's right for the economy.

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.

China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up without having pre-conceptions of how I should deal with it. My only long-range plan has been and still is just the very general plan of making Linux better.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.