Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
Spontaneity has its time and its place.
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.
Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.
That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else.
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other.
One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun.
On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.
The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.
The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.