I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
I don't have one polarizing message. It is just about being consistent over the years.
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.
Oh, my only - if I had one frustration in being on 'West Wing' is I wasn't on it enough, because I was in and out.
There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
Being asked to play one of the butlers is like being picked to play for England. All you have to do is think of the great butlers from the past - Terry-Thomas in 'How To Murder Your Wife,' John Gielgud in 'Arthur' and Denholm Elliott in 'Trading Places.'
The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.
Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
A legacy for me is being a piece of the soundtrack of someone's life.
Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.
There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
I hate being helpless, and I hate having to ask people to do things for me.
I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.
Being a good husband and father... that's the most important thing I'm going to do on this earth.
Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.
It's problematic being an Arab who writes in Hebrew.
For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.
There's an awful lot of hanging around when you're doing science fiction. Going down and waiting for them to set up, being told to go back to your dressing room while they change the track and the lighting and so on.
Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.
I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'
You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.
I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.
For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.
What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.
