The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.
Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.
For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.
Fear kills instead of protecting. It murders dreams, hopes, relationships and or physical well being.
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.
Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star...
Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.
I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.
I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine.
I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside.
I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.
I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.
If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.
All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.
For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.
