I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.
My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them, from working with some great writers and some very good TV directors and then working with some who weren't.
Who isn't a fan of Jeff Bridges? And he is such a unique character. I can't think of anybody who's quite like him. He was a lot of fun to be around, just personally.
98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
I'm not the kind of person who sits off by myself and ignores everyone. I like to be happy!
When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.
I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
In the land of the skunks, he who has half a nose is king.
I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.
As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviously.
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
I am not a 'yes' person. No matter who you are married to, you still need to lead your life.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.
I used to make fun of my friends who had BlackBerries. And I know that the expression CrackBerry has been going around, but now I fully understand it. I'm actually addicted to a piece of machinery, and that's really embarrassing.
I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.
People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.
Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.
It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it.
My parents weren't into fashion. I didn't have an eccentric granny who mixed lace mantillas with tweed.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who get through, where you go, 'Whoa, hold on a second. What's this guy doing here?'
History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.
