I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.
I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it.
It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.
The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.
When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.
Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment.
I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.
Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.
There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.
Acting and the navy seem to balance each other out - I've not surrendered over to the complete process of the navy, nor have I surrendered to the ego-driven process of acting.
Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.
You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another.
Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.
Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal.
The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.
In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!
The standards of the international community manifest firmness. Iran has no need for long-range missiles or to collaborate with terrorist organizations all over the world.
You have to get over being shy, and just be comfortable with yourself, and I think that for me, if I'd stayed in a small town, I'd be a different person.
Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.
The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda.
