When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.
If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.
You have to look at what a person does with his life. Anyone can say that he's a Christian, but you look at how they live.
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.
I think Newt Gingrich is a Christian; at least, he told me he is.
So süß klingt allen Menschen das Wort Freiheit, dass selbst Keckheit und Frechheit überall Anklang finden, weil sie mit der Freiheit einige Ähnlichkeiten haben.
Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
If men and women were surer of their God there would be more genuine manliness, womanliness, and godliness in the world, and a whole lot less fear of each other.
I used to tell moms that for the sake of their well-being they had to put themselves first. But I know now that's not always possible.
If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.
They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.
The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport.
