As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience.
I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one's cultural identity has always been fascinating to me.
I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile.
Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.
The press is like any business. It's a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.
I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
There's a lot more people that enjoy me playing the enforcer, the destroyer. If bad disappears one day, then good goes out of business.
I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.
It's like Canada is the little brother to the United States and one day they are going to show the world they're just as cool as their successful big brother.
One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.
The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
I'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill that is not deficit-neutral, period.
