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Work expands so as to fill the time available

If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

I'm glad I get to live in the United States of America.

The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.

Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Water links us all as human beings. Everyone needs water, and we all have challenges about it, no matter where we live. Yet even in the U.S., people aren't aware of problems facing water.

When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.

When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

I find myself very drawn to the experience of church. I love to be in a surrounding that's so welcoming. People come shake your hand. That's not always the case in most synagogues I've been in. I also find more of an emphasis on how to live and grow as a person. And I have to say, I'm very inspired by Jesus.

I want to be as creatively disruptive as possible. I want to be radically transparent in a way that isn't showboating.

How you think matters. How you act matters more.

Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions.

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.

The red carpet is very important. You have to be very careful to have the right person dressed in right way. For me, it has to be a perfect look.

I've seen Thompson before, as I keep my eye on everyone in the division, as I might one day fight them.

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road skipped around from classical to Western to new age to hyper-cinematic.

I love winning, and I love the challenge.