I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.
The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
Even though I wear glasses, I'm not just a mousy person who stays in my room - even though I do sometimes stay in my room and read.
Gleason was a rough guy. Like all of these comics, I have never known one who is a sweetheart all the way through.
Glenn Slater is my lyricist who, of the new young lyricists coming along, is the most exciting, I think.
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!
I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.
Into The Gloss is buoyed by the people on it, the people who read it and discuss it, and the people who work on it.
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.
My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
Often, there are fallacies when a journalist or a fan and sometimes even a coach who has never been a goalkeeper sees a cross in the six-yard box and says he should come out.
I hate players who always play the ball back to the goalkeeper.
There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.