The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.
Of course, De Niro has had a long history of memorable performances. Everyone knows 'Taxi Driver' and 'Raging Bull,' but 'Awakenings' really did something for me.
I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was still part of the older school.
When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.
Here's a trick to giving the birds-and-bees talk: You gotta do it in a car, so they can't escape. That's what all my girlfriends' parents did.
I never did films for the money or because I needed to buy a house or car. I do it because I love my job.
I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.
I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.
Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.
My organization, National Action Network (NAN), was on the ground talking and meeting with people in Ferguson, just as we did in Staten Island following Eric Garner's death.
Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.
