I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.
It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.
By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.
I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.
What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.
But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.
It was the Lord's love and my recognition of His presence in my life that made me realize how important it was to give Him the glory and be there for Him.
Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.
I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.
Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.
The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.
When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.
You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.
A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.
It is extremely necessary to realize that the world doesn't only have one way of seeing things.
We myopically stare at the gaping hole left in our lives and see nothing but the hole, not realizing a hole is defined by everything around it that is not a hole.
Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.