Anne Sophie Swetchine Quotes

Those who are believers in God find strength from their faith in the face of suffering. They are compelled to give sacrificially to help those in need. And they have the hope that comes from knowing that, with God by their side, the tragedy they are facing is never the final word.

I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.

My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

I'm an actor. I want to do drama.

During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

Everybody's family has problems.

I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.

Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness or bedhead, since it shows you're carefree and relaxed.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across.

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at patterns of human behavior. We used it there to predict when people would try to cheat the system to get money. But you can predict pretty much any behavior with a certain amount of accuracy.

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we'd all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn't jaded.

I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.