When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I real...
I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a re...
There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, y...
I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I ...
It is better to start small than to not start at all because you are waiting to be perfect with your skills. The truth is that you can never achieve perfection in life. Even the greatest man on earth is still incapable of doing so. The ultimate goal ...
Each day is a new start and within each start there's an end, life is not eternal, so live to the best of your ability, love with the strength of your heart, dance with your eyes closed and nobody will see you, and enjoy yourself as if there will be ...
What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should ...
Over truth there is light.
When something's over with me, it's over.
How can one start a fast with baklava in one's hand.
If one is not in a hurry, even an egg will start walking.
We start as fools and become wise through experience.
Bambi was inspired, and said trembling, "There is Another who is over us all, over us and over Him.
You cant laugh at a joke agian and agian, but why do you keep crying over the same thing over and over agian?
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.
America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.
And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.
You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.
