You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.
Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.
The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.
You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.
I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.
And as long as your cats is loyal to what y'all are standing for, and they know how to play the game, it should be no way you can lose. It's about compromising; it's about respecting one another's position, and about going with your heart as far as what you believe in.
I personally feel that, for some people, their physique and looks work for them. And when you're deprived of both these aspects, you rely on humour!
You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text.
Unless you have kids, you actually have no idea what kids are watching on TV these days.
I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
You do not have to be convicted or even charged of a crime to be able to demonstrate that you've violated a personal conduct policy, and reflect poorly not only on themselves, but all of their teammates, every NFL player in the league, and everyone associated with the NFL.
You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.
I've always admired people like Donal McCann. He wasn't a household name, but if he put his name to something, you were guaranteed a good yarn at the very least.
Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.
I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.
I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.
When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.
If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.
We should not throw in the towel. Instead, we should be saying to young people, 'There is a better way for you to have a healthy and productive life, and that's not to get into drug use and drug abuse.'
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
You don't grow up naive in Africa.
You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.
The main objective - our soul is our people. And our job is to enrich their lives, change the world. And so I think that's the bigger pressure you put on yourself.
Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Here's the key to Jamaica, the secret to Jamaican dancehall parties, no matter where you are in the world. If you do not see Japanese people, you're at the wrong party. They source authenticity like no other culture I've ever seen.
I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.
