I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle to the boardroom, but it has to be an education process.
The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.
I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.
If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.
One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.
Since I started acting, I always or often find work takes precedence with me. And that is not necessarily a great rule for life.
When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.
The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities.
Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.
You can have a great script, and it can be a great show, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't take the public's interest.
The great thing about 'X-Men' is that it takes characters that are quite firmly established in the comics and puts them in new contexts.
Writing is something that's great because you get to write every thought that's on your mind; you take your time.
I am a great believer in people taking control of their own lives.
The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.
No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.
You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
