It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!

An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.

I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.

I think at this point, I'd eventually like to work behind the camera. That's not to say I would never act again, I'm not quite sure to be honest.

I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an age-appropriate movie - dark and realistic and edgy. If young kids want to see me, go see the Christmas movie.

Success is not in never failing but rising everytime you fall

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Winners in life don't always win; they just don't give up.

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

I've got big, big dreams for the future.

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

I have a lot of respect for tough coaches.

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.

My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated.

It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.

I've spent a good part of my life in Silicon Valley, California, and I really like that place.

I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

At the suggestion of Professor Itaru Watanabe, and with his help, I left Japan at the age of twenty-three to pursue graduate study at the University of California at San Diego.

It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done.

The diagnosis that poverty, lack of education, or lack of opportunities have much to do with terrorism requires a fundamentally optimistic view of human nature. This diagnosis leads to the prognosis that all we need to do to solve the terrorism problem is to create societies that are less poor, better educated and have more opportunities.

The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely instrumental standpoint. But when you hear the term 'instrumental music' you think it's real serious stuff and everybody's playing a million notes and it's about playing fast. That's not what we do.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea.

To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.

Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.