If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.

I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.

Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

You face racism in small and large ways.

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

I am immensely contrite. And Im sorry for the damage Ive done.

Once I had a better beat I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing I lost sight of sort of my moral and ethical underpinnings.

Before you start a business, careful planning is in order to obtain to where you ought to be. The biggest part is to ensure that, once you might have created your own plan, that you simply take motion. Without motion, you are unable to succeed.

Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie.

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong.

Be happy. Be bright. Be you.

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice.

You can't micromanage. People who try to do that often fall on their faces. Incentivize those who work with you so you get the best work you can. Every career is a team effort, even if you're the one in front.

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.

People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.

You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.

I like the minute when I can get off the stage and go home, and I know I've done a good job.

Mascara is my go-to product before stepping out of the house.

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant. At my shows, there are no holy cows.

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.

The law often allows what honor forbids.

I have a following. Whenever I am on tour they come. It is always sold out.

Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.