The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of ...
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.
I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.
I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.
Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.
I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the summer between my junior and senior year. After I graduated, I ended up moving out to L.A. But in my senior year, I made it a part of my major.
My saddle horses are my friends. My dogs are my friends.
I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me.
I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.
