Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.
The most out-there thing I’m saying is, ‘Don’t have babies. Don’t get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.
Waves are like women, you can never get enough of them, always want a better, more dangerous one, and occasionally you get dumped.
If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.
You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.
I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.
Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.
There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.
I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.
I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden.
Stop making a relationship about what you get and start making it about what you give, for what you give is what you'll get in return.
It's harder and harder for journalists to get out in the field and interview Iraqis. The Web can get these voices out easily and cheaply.
Well come and stand a little bit closer, breathe in and get a bit higher. You'll ever know what hit you when I get to you!
When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.
That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.
Motherhood is when eating chicken soup; the kids get the chicken and you get the soup and you would still feel happily stuffed.
My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive
I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.
After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to freeze my eggs.
I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
