Can we all get along?

Can we all get along?

It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.

As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

For a long time, sure, I was letting the pressure of being Rodney King get to me. It ain't easy. Even now, I walk into a place wondering, 'What people are thinking? Do they know who I am? What do they think about what happened? Do they blame me for the all those people who died?'

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

I tell myself time heals. It really does.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.

Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.

Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history.

People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.

People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?

The trouble that they see me in is a part of my life that I'm working on.

Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.

System of a Down is the music that I wanted to buy but couldn't find at the store. It's the band I wanted to be a fan of.

I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I look at the specific demands of a certain race and tailor my training towards that.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

I went to an all-girls' school with 43 people in my class, so dances were small. I always went with girlfriends or a blind date.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story.

My cooking is very simple, so I don't really use machines at all. A knife, cutting board, frying pan and strainer are my essentials.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

I still receive very regular death threats that make it impossible for me to return to Indonesia. I think I could get in, but I don't think I could get out again.

You cant make a cloudy day a sunny day but can embrace it and decide its going to be a good day after all.

I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.

You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

Dont be discouraged. Its often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me:

Clearly, healthcare is a very important sector.