Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.

It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.

In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

Your child is happy. What else could you want?

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

I'm a really uncomfortable person, so the whole Hollywood lifestyle - attention on me, the cameras, people telling me how to live my life, talking about me in a public way - none of that is appealing to me. Acting is amazing. But everything that comes with it is such a turnoff.

When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what they really represented was, they'd come from this age of shared music.

There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.

Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company would inevitably punish, directly or indirectly, the many employees and shareholders who were totally innocent.

The way they taught history in schools was not appealing. They stressed wars and dates. They left the people out. I was attracted to history by the need to know about the people. In China, I went to a British school, and we just learned about kings and queens. Back in America, I had the regular social studies curriculum.

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.

Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

Acting is very much an all-or-nothing job.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'

The problem is, we live in a society where all that interests us is power and money. So we don't have any interest in our children, and what we leave for our children is not important.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.