American Quotes

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important to follow your heart and be true to yourself in the process.

I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night.

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.

When you're in shape, you don't have to walk up to somebody and say, 'Yo, I love myself.' You look like you care for yourself.

The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesn't really come in one specific department. So even if something hasn't happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through.

James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.

It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!

If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.

I've never had to fight hard for anything I've gotten in the past.

I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military.

I'm not just a voice who wants to sing on anything. I co-produce, I want to select who comes in and plays on what songs, who to duet with and all of it.