I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.
I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.
I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.
If I don't love you, baby, grits ain't groceries.
And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that.
We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.
I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.
The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.
What we do know is that the planet is going from 7 billion people today to 9 billion. More people want to live like us, drive American- size cars, live in an American-size home, and eat American-size Big Macs. What does that mean? It means that energy demand is going to be going up.
Ignorance: the root of all evil.
One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black.