I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.
I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.
I'm not a policymaker, I'm not a pundit. In fact, I don't have any interest in it. It's not on my agenda.
IVF is very commercial. The people doing it are among the best-paid in medicine: they charge a lot per treatment and it's not in their interest to make it more effective. Having people fail means that they come back again.
I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.
Walmart is committed to fighting hunger in America every day.
I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.
They didn’t fly out of my body, I actually had to push the little fuckers out.
I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the resistance engendered by fear into the unknown and into the future.
I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.
One can be a pessimist in thought, but not in action.
Ambition is the death of joy.
Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great art
Beauty is the desire for beauty.
The fire alarm is not the fire.
I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.
I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.