If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.

A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.

He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.

People who drink light beer dont like the taste of beer they just like to pee a lot.

If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.

To see a hungry kid eating a bowl of rice like it's ice cream -- there's a satisfaction in that, that words can't express.

I really don't care what people think of me. I've got my family. I've got my friends.

Not everyone in Santa Monica is a well-heeled, juice-cleansing, Prius-driving yogini, but for better or worse, that is the city's dominant chord.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.

Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three.

I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.

What the people are within, the buildings express without.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.

The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

All you need is love.

Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion....they need our legs & lungs of endurance.

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.

I'm a big fan of skilled singers. Some of my favorites are Cee-Lo Green, Donny Hathaway, James Fauntleroy, and Kim Burrell.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

I get my most creative sort of energy after a show. So I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. Generally in a rush, exactly. I have to get it out somehow, otherwise I can't sleep, you know.

Good manners is just being respectful of others. Whether you know them or not, you should show respect for all people.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.