I was adopted by a Salvadorian mother and a white father. Growing up having complete identity crisis. Then my search for my mother and trying to find out why I was given up, and how could a mother give up a child, then finding out the circumstances o...
I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm on those long international flights, like 22 hours from L.A. to Sydney, I'll get up sometimes and do yoga in the aisle just to stretch out a little bit.
I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana so... there was kind of a little half-pipe in my yard, and that was the extent of the skate terrain in Montana. So I've got to go out and...
When I gave up law to go into real estate, my mother said, 'How can you give up the law?' But she lived long enough to see the Bulls win all six championships. She would wear all six pendants at the same time. She could barely stand up.
In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those...
Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the earl...
At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.
I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in...
Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to ...
Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself.
Your desire is not up to your decision, your decision is not up to your determination, your determination is not up to your destiny.
There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.
Better collapse earlier than giving up later, but what best is never giving up.
Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles.
Generally, I wake up, honestly it's creepy, but I wake up around 4:20.
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.
For those who sit on the stairs, a good quote is a strong invitation to stand up and to go up the stairs!
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.
I'd rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.
