It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well some people if theres something wrong theyll pick at that.

Just scratching the surface. It's just the beginning. I'm still young. I've got a lot of time to grow.

I never had a massive desire to buy clothes. I liked to customise the clothes I already had or was given when I was younger. If I didn't like them that much, I made them how I wanted them to be.

Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.

The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.

I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic."

Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word.

Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.

The goal as an actor is to constantly surround yourself with amazing artists who challenge you and make you grow.

But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says 'Your Hero's Photo Here,' and 'Your Hero's Story Here.'

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.

Tequila probably won't fix your problems, but it's worth a shot.

I am very passionate about what I do; I give it 200 percent, and I don't think it will ever change. But I've realised that, as an actor, you have to give it your best and let it go. That's the most difficult journey, and it comes with time.

Most of my friends are male. Men are more fun.

There's a feature on Facebook where you can enable security that checks the device you're coming from. By default these features are likely off, but as a consumer, you can enable them.

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.

You can intimidate some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.

If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

No matter what other plans are out there, this is the best plan.