I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.
In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.
The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.
I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism, the myopia, is just taking away from the relationship.
The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.
However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.
I think standing and fighting and working alongside all of these people that raise their right hand and serve their nation... really wipes away the distractions of some of the petty things we think are important at home.
I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.
We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.
