My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.
As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in work force, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are.
I think that comics can do things movies can't and vice versa. In my opinion, you only expose their weaknesses if you try too hard at making one exactly like the other.
I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'
Jim: What do you mean there's no government? There's always a government, they're in a bunker or a plane somewhere!
[On the night of the Apollo 11 landing] Jim Lovell: Christopher Columbus, Charles Lindbergh, and Neil Armstrong. Ha, ha, ha. Neil Armstrong!
[Seeing Lester and the two Jim's jogging] Colonel Frank Fitts: What is this? The fucking Gay Pride parade?
Jim Gordon: [hearing bat sounds] What is that? Batman: Back-up. Flass: What the...? [bats swarm around Arkham]
Bart: Hey, maybe you should eat somethin' first. Jim: No thanks, food makes me sick.
When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.
When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.
The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.
You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.
I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.
There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.
I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.
Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'
Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.
Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers.
This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of drainage.
