For my first week as a new boy at Radley College, back in the summer of 1979, I was followed around by a film crew.
And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.
One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's a government function, and we shouldn't be playing political games with it.
I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.
Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.
I'm the kind of person who wants the people around me to be comfortable, to laugh, and to have a fabulous time - I want them to be as happy as I am.
I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.
We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!
At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.
Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Please know that my thoughts and prayers, as well as those of many, many others here in Alabama and around the country, are with each of you during this time.
From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.
The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, an...
I walk around naked all the time, but it doesn't mean I am completely comfortable and happy with my body.
Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.
I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.
I thought for a long time that I was going to be a pop artist. It was around 18-19 that I started to make that a reality. I just knew that this was my destiny.
I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic.
News is virtual now. It is not 24-hour news cycles; it is instant news cycles. It is live. News is live all the time, around the clock.
As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.
