What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.
It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of weird because I've done senior all year, but I didn't get to compete last year because of my elbow.
From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.
It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.
But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.