When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they'll put a negative spin on things.
I don't consider myself flashy at all. I mean, did I dress like the average Washingtonian? No.
It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it.
Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.
Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said, 'and you should be able to hold their attention.'
Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Certainly, its important to protect the water system and that covers, certainly, everything from vandals to terrorists.
Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.
I played a lot of the original 'Fight Night.' I think the depiction of Trinidad in the game was awesome.
We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day.
Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.
I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.
I might not be in a relationship anymore, but I don't believe that people should have to lie to themselves just to make somebody else feel good.
While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.
Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.
You've got to have a focus. You just fight for money, you get hurt. You focus on the title, you'll just naturally make money doing it.
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
That's what PGA Tour golf is all about. It's a partnership with the community to help people to raise money for charity and to do it using golf as a platform.
A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
