Television Personality Quotes

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.

For quite a while I did feel like my brain wasn't being used at all. Obviously, when you're just modelling, you do feel a bit almost brain-dead, where you need something to stimulate you mentally and you're not getting it.

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up. Before I did one show, they were, like 'Why do you want to do this? Do you know that 90 percent of talk shows don't get a second season? You're a model. People just see you as a model.'

You can be in the public eye all the time and still have a private life, but the important thing is to keep in touch with the people who put you there.

My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

I was largely drinking to forget where I was. When you're in a place like Vietnam, you get to a point where you don't care any more. You're in a place that's foreign to you, and you know for a fact that many people there hate you and will kill you if they get the chance. It really does something to your mind to know that many of the people living around you don't like you and want you to die.

I never took any money to play records. I made money other ways. Horizontally, vertically, every which way you can think of, I made money from that show.

Apple is becoming the JC Penney of tech. I think that there is a sense that the company is in a tailspin, and it doesn't seem to matter what they do right now. … Whatever product that is coming out in September is a clear loser. We haven't seen it yet, but it is a loser.

I'm the only guy who actually invented anything of the judges. They got a couple of advertising hacks, and a venture capitalist.

I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.

Scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past.

There is no alternative to work. I find nothing nicer than working. MK tells me that I am a workaholic. If I don't work I get a headache and I feel depressed. I like to work round the clock all the time.

When I was dating and the wine list was presented to my male companion, I tried to ignore this unfortunate faux pas. But this practice still goes on...Closing note to all servers and sommeliers: please include women in wine selection. Okay?

Miserable people love to make other people miserable. I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them.

Brandi Glanville

I still haven't learned to deal with situations like that very well — but I don't think you should, because then you're accepting defeat. It's good to be stubborn, to be hard on yourself.

Defeating the infidels requires a much greater effort. It requires the mobilization of the nation.

Muhammad Munajid

I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together.

Rosie O'Donnell

You don't look tall if you surround yourself by short grasses.

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Michael Portillo

Life is about doing the things that make you happy, not the things that please other people. If you can please other people, that's a plus, but as long as you're not hurting anyone, you're golden.

Political pornography is not unlike the sexual kind: difficult to define, but you know it when you see it.

Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a free people. Free people want to pursue their own happiness, but a one-size-fits-all approach requires herding the free, against their will, into the state's idea of what's right. Then it's not utopia.

I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.

I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.

Barbara Walters

I'm not sorry for stealing my husband from his wife.