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Before we decide to trust you with this power we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind but it should not be deaf.

When you explain to people what you're trying to do as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks you can build instant trust even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

What then is time? If no one asks me I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks I do not know.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone I know but mine was plain weird.

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early work late - and strike oil.'

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff talking about the film explaining your own life it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.