I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.
Take good advice as just that, good advice.
Music was all around me from the time I came into the world.
There are a lot of great fighters in this sport, but they just don't bring what I bring to the table.
My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
'Real talk' refers to the act of speaking the honest truth about something or someone without fear of consequence.
Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'
If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.
Fundamentalists from every religion have to be replaced, have to be disempowered.
If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
If a rich man eats a snake people say, "this is wisdom!" if a poor man eats a snake people say, "this is folly!"
He who gives fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.
To do it always right, that is what music is to me.
Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.
Teaching is not a job. It's a lifestyle. It permeates your whole life.
My favorite part of speaking at events has never been the speaking, but the reading of my books.
Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
CINTAA has no right say I am unprofessional.
Just think - ibm and dec in the same room - and we did it. Makes you feel warm inside.
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.
He's just a special person, he treats everyone the same.
The relationship between citizens and government is increasingly mediated through the Internet.
But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.
I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.
Fools go in throngs.
If we had a month's notice, we could have come up with something.
Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Jews.
