If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead.
If I'm watching my favorite boxer, and he's just won the heavyweight championship of the world, and he retires, it kind of makes the guy a legend.
I get pretty focused when I start working on something. And I drink a lot of water, way more than most people.
I realized that a surf trip on a jet can be like a road trip. If you see a road you want to turn down, you can just go there.
I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.
One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.
I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it. ~ Oscar Hammerstein
I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.
Like, if you are a celebrity, then anyone will let you be in a film or on a TV show, and if you're an actor, chances are if you are successful, you are becoming a celebrity.
You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.
I worked in Maynard Jackson's first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won.
I had a very curly perm in the '80s, thanks to the 'Way You Make Me Feel' Michael Jackson video. I liked the girl in it.
Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.
I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.
We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.
As a singer, I have won the highest honours in China. Actually I am like the panda: we are both national treasures.
In the criminal law [...] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.
I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don't agree with. I'm thinking, 'Peyton, it is not healthy to be all worked up before a game.'
If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
