A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.
I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think.
All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.
Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.'
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
There are 14 Cabinet spots, and God only knows how many hundreds of people want them.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.
I always have traveled with a camera throughout my life, but I always had my old 35mm film camera. When I was training to go into space, the only equipment there was a digital camera. I went through a fast-track class on Earth. It actually was fun, though I'm basically a dinosaur with computers.
It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.
I grew up listening to Beethoven and old jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Anita O'Day. But those were, like, the only women I listened to - I hated women pop singers.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.
For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.
I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
If I could tell every Trump supporter two things, it would be to travel and read a history book. Look beyond yourselves; look at how petty the morals you uphold seem when you realize we are not the only ones.
I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive.
The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.
