It's really cheesy, but basically, 'Roots' got me to find out my own roots.
Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are content within your own heart and in the presence of the person that you love, who fills your day and makes you stronger and wiser, and gives you the confidence to go out into the world. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling.
I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.
If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.
Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.
Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.
I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.
My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn't. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn't care for the lifestyle.
When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.
I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.
The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.
No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.
My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.
But obviously you don't want to just be the guy who comes in and sort of spices up every movie. So yeah, definitely moving into more of a leading man role would be great, but on my own terms.
If you come in with all of the answers, you might create something that's very beautiful and powerful, but I think it will also seem sterile if you don't leave room for people to have their own reactions to it.
I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.
I do own a unicycle, which I use for workout purposes as opposed to doing tricks.
Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.
I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own.
I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.
Some of my own books are being developed - one as a Broadway musical.
One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.
I'm anti-social, and I don't have too many friends. I'm in my own world doing my own things - training in martial arts, dancing, or watching a Michael Jackson video.
Just as like the music industry still wishes for the days when it controlled its own production and distribution, the media and marketing world still yearns for the silver bullet of the thirty-second spot on 'Seinfeld,' even as it knows those days are over.
Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.
I do believe that for me, my own personal journey has been one in which my voice has also been appreciated.
I'm excited about my own network, BounceTV. It's the first African-American-owned broadcast network. It's myself, my partner Rob Hardy, and some other African-American businessmen, including Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III.
I'm the old-fashioned type who prefers to meet a woman in a more normal setting. I don't like to feel that I'm being hunted down. I've always liked to do my own hunting when it comes to meeting women.
It's not a good idea to always look for new frontiers, especially when you have opportunities in your existing businesses, in your own backyard.
The first book I bought with my own money as a teenager was Martin Amis's 'Money.' You know that thing when you read a book and you think, 'I'm going to have to read every word ever written by this man.'
Those who have a knowledge of One America would know that there were several models and actresses working there just as anchors. And they didn't get their own political talk shows.
Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.
'Entrepreneur 'just denotes that you recognize that you're doing things across disciplines and that you're blazing your own path.
I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.
It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.
