If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she's gonna end up on a Black History Month stamp.
I always had a sort of niggling regret that we didn't come do stuff in America.
I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
I got my first guitar for Christmas when I was five years old.
Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.
My mom is a pack rat.
There's a social piece to what's going on in the Sugarland world, but we've never been a band that's political, and I maintain that.
The whole process of filmmaking can be chaotic, but if you can have an enthusiastic cast, you're pretty much there.
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
In Japanese, sushi does not mean raw fish. It means seasoned rice.
I'm a workaholic.
The madness of one makes many mad.
Did you know all the people on Earth could fit into a 1 km cube.
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.
How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese.
Every now and then the government must defend itself against itself.
I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.
I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.
I don't get offered many comedies.
I'm just a monk, I'm like a recluse.
The coaches boosts our confidence when we lose. They remind us that we have done it once before and we can do it again.
Success is never going to come in the way your teenage self sees it.
With 'Gerald's Game' in particular, we didn't have enough money or time and it was really hard.
If you really believe that every three years the market will double, then go and buy shares. I don't believe that.
An athlete's diet is a complicated thing.
Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard.
Everybody wants to live in peace.
Bad guys have always been my bag... I look mean without even trying.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
