J. K. Simmons Quotes
There are so many urban pop ideas that are underserved, and I think Hollywood doesn't see us and misses the opportunity to integrate.
Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.
Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.
Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.
It is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.
We are trying to discover where this approach could have the greatest possibility of large-scale impact. We have to choose wisely and see where there is greatest interest and need.
I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.
We felt that the Gates Foundation looked at our track record and our publications and decided that "this is persuasive; this needs to be done. Let's see what they can do."
Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.
Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.
I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.
It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.
National coach John McKay has told me that it won't be easy but I want to make up for losing the 2003 Four Nations Tournament final here in the Kelvin Hall by beating this guy Santana.
Even though it felt completely natural - strangely enough - recording an album, I was very shy about making it public.
The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.
There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.
Hope is something that can never be taken from you unless you allow someone to take it. If you never lose hope, you will never truly be poor.
...Data itself... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him.
Friends come into our lives and friends leave our lives. But friends never leave our hearts. And best friends always get to stay in the best places in our hearts.
They lay together in a sheltered place among the ruins of Brasilia while deathbeams from Chinese EMVs played like blue searchlights on broken ceramic walls.
Bringing you 'raisins and almonds' and words (from a Yiddish lullaby
A $10, 000 investment in Dell at its 1988 initial public offering would have yielded a fortune of ~$6 million at the stock’s peak.
Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn’t. And therein lies the tale.
... The continuation of her life was more than another day of breathing, but was the gift of another day of engagement with her beloved across the spectrum of all things.
Losing your family... it puts fear in a different perspective, Chase had once told me.
I hated the distance between us. It left me unsettled, unbalanced. Like the good parts of myself were fading.
Who are you, Hockenberry, to thwart Fate and defy the Will of the Gods?I am me, Thomas Hockenberry. I am fed up with these power-addled thugs who call themselves gods.
No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.
... you "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come
It's not only how much money you make. It's what you do with it that determines your financial condition.
When it comes to money, ignorance is NOT bliss. What you don't know CAN hurt you.
Life is brutal that way... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ...
Rage and hurt coalesce into a stone in my chest and as I take another gulp of my father's prized whiskey, I hear myself say, "Tell me about your plan.
The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence.
I feel a strange sensation brewing inside of me. It tickles my throat and forces my lips into a grin. Before I can stifle it, I giggle. And then I laugh.
They were Archer's second set of children an d paragons of contemporary teenage cynicism. They enjoyed setting fire to the tails of tender thoughts.
He put a hand on his throat, as though trying to stop the words, but they came anyway. "You're home. To me.
Don't do that again! Not ever again!" I told him."I should say the same to you, " he said. I could feel his breath, warm on my neck. "Promise me!" I demanded."I... I promise.""I can't lose you.
I promise I'll come back. No matter what happens." Though his voice was only a whisper, there was a fierceness behind it. I believed him completely. "I'll wait for you, " I told him.
I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped the legend that was our love.
But people had forgotten there was a day in the not too distant past when they’d not seen or heard of bombings, and suicide vests, and snipers. Alicia, though, had not forgotten.