I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.
People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.
The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.
Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.
In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a couple of his rallies and found out there were a bunch of young folks that there were a bunch of young folks that he had been able to recruit on his own.
I make a lot of my own clothes. I don't like wearing the same thing everybody else wears.
Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.
I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.
That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.
I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.
For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.
It is strange when you're a loser in college, which I was, to then get your own show.
If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it.
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.
Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.
In the '20s they were telling us we'd all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.
I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days.
The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well.
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.
I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.
