Obama shows no sign of easing up on negativity.
I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.
I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.
Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.
Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand.
I grew up in this weird, educationally elite but economically impoverished environment. Total 'Oprah' story.
I wake up every morning, and I am ecstatic.
When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.
When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'
I grew up on Edgar Allen Poe, and I loved Alfred Hitchcock's movies.
I was born in Glasgow and brought up in a place in between Glasgow and Edinburgh called West Lothian!
I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.
The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.
When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.
Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.
People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
