Quotes About Priorities

A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

I don't seek out love or relationships, just because my schedule is crazy.

You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.

I would much rather be someone with high self-esteem and less funny.

As long as everything is happy at home, I can be totally selfish at work.

It's so easy to be selfish in your 20s and not want to sacrifice.

I'm pretty selfish, I think. I'm probably a terrible dad. I don't do too much with my kids. Obviously I love them and everything, but I just stay here in the studio all day.

I was down to an 11-handicap before running for the Senate.

It's a sacrifice for me. It's not really something I want to do. I don't love the idea of being a U.S. senator; I love the idea of being a mother.

Once you have a child, that becomes your life, and while that's the way it should be, I sort of have a love affair with my work. Having said that, many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.

I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.

It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.

I wasn't the star-obsessed person. I never wanted to meet stars at film sets.

If I was a man, I don't know if I'd settle down long before I was 50.

But also outside of football, with the family, the most important is to settle down, to have everything good outside with school, etc.

More than I wanting to be married, it has been my kids who tell me that I should settle down.

It is a very common thing that players do, to live away from their clubs. You have families and if they are settled somewhere, I don't see any reason they should uproot everything just for you.

Right after you have a baby, the focus is on the baby. You don't feel sexual; you don't feel attractive; and you have a bigger job.

I'd rather be a great mom than a sexy model.

I did a season at the Royal Shakespeare Company. People say, 'Why aren't you doing theater anymore?' And I say, 'Look, my kids have gotten used to wearing shoes.'

A clean sheet is always nice but I'd rather win 2-1 than get a 0-0.

I'm not a crazy germophobe; I have kids, and that ship has sailed.

I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it.