When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'

When I hear someone sigh that life is hard I am tempted to ask compared to what

Elton John and Billy Joel, I find them both to be huge inspirations, those guys are so talented.

I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.

I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.

When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer.

I have made mistakes, but I feel that the people who have done things to me - they should be ashamed.

I'll admit a little something: If I go to one of those hotels where there's, like, a $50 omelet, I'm taking the silverware home with me. I'm not saying it's right. I just feel like it's an unspoken agreement where the mug and the silverware are just part of the deal.

I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.

I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

My work always comes from the same source - from movement. It doesn't necessarily come from an outside idea, though the source can be something small or large that I've seen, often birds or other animals. The seeing can then provoke the imagining.

I believe that our circumstances can change based on what words we read hear and speak.

Bank of America is the story of some of the most ambitious, aggressive bank builders on the face of the planet.

To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

An angel in the book of life wrote down my babys birth. Then whispered as she closed the book too beautiful for earth.

Basketball is a team game. But that doesnt mean all five players should take the same amount of shots

I actually think I need 'Homeland' rehab. And that Ray Donovan. I think I've watched every episode more than once. Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight have made me fall in love with acting again.

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.

It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.

Protesting against sexism doesn't mean saying that all men are actively sexist.

Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.

Lord knows I'm not the poster child for eating right and exercising, so I don't want to give that impression at all! This is the same person who people have watched have a weight problem in her teens, so come on!

Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.