I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end.
If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.
My life is very much consumed with work.
The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.
St. Louis is the best thing that ever happened to me. I needed that peace in my life. And I've always been a semi-country boy.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
I love to eat, and if I could, I'd eat every second of my life.
I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.
I don't differentiate between black and Latino actors. We're in the same struggle to be represented in a way that's even close to honest. And I can tell you that the amount of Latino characters I can point at and say, 'That's what my life experience looks like' - I can't think of any off the top of my head besides Jimmy Smits in 'Mi Familia.'
But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.
Shoot, every time you get on an animal, you take your life in your hands.
Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.
I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.
Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
There's this whole thing of being two people. You are the person you want to be - the writer - and then there's this weird other life of going on tour and talking about the writing. And that really is weird.
It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.
I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.
When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.
Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.
My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.
Actresses are so spoilt - we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don't know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that's about it!
I was tired of an outlaw's life.
What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.
