Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life
What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.
I just want to be known as a very normal person and be treated as that and be able to walk down the street like anyone else.
I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat.
We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head, and drag us out and take us down there dead.
There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.
I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.
Always dream high. Never let it down by inconsistent efforts. Your relentless labour & integrity make you successful in the long run.
Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.
I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.
When life pushes you down, just roll with the storm, because at one point you'll push life right back.
If that poem idea is in your head NOW, write it down. Right now. Or lose it. For when it's gone, it's gone forever...
I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.
People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.
I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: 'I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent.' That makes me just die inside.
Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.
Will eventually grow up and get a real job. Until then, will keep making things up and writing them down.
The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting mediation.
Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above.
