If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.
I feel like decades ago it was either you're black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.
Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.
There are certain people in your life and work where the relationship is more important than who is right or wrong.
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
There should be more on television that uplifts people and shows them how to better prepare themselves for earning a living.
Most people I met they have more potential than me, but I don't know why they are not using it to step up.
The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay for reading.
I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.
Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.
My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.
My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30 subfields of biology, even geology.
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.
In the grand scheme of things, a lot more women go through this than I think people realize or talk about, so that wasn't a problem for me as far as saying that I have endometriosis.
Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.
Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop singers and television actors their most revered leaders. Pampered but lovable. He loved America, even though he held...
What I like about this belief is that it makes people look for a big picture, and think more about how they behave in this life and what they achieve, as it might influence their next lives. I also like another aspect of it: that negative experiences...
She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them, become more and more attractive and...
(...) I knew I couldn't sleep with her. I don't know - in my small experience of women, I've found it to hard to sleep with them at such times. Times when you get impression that there's more to them than an opportunity. Sleeping with girls was great...
