I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.
The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.
More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.
You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
I don't really care who's doing drugs in the NBA as long as the scene isn't adversely affecting my team and teammates. I've known enough drug users-going as far back as grade school and the streets of New York-not to view them as pariahs or lost souls. I've certainly smoked more than my quota of weed.
After Titanic it would have been completely foolish for me to go and try and top that. I'm an English girl, I've always loved England, I've never felt the desire to leave it for any particular reason. And whilst I'm ambitious and care very much about what I do, I'm not competitive. I also don't want to act every day of my life. () So it was important to me after Titanic to just remind myself of why it was that I was acting in the first place, which is of course because I love it.
In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.
Believing that you can move mountains sometimes is more important than actually having the ability to do so.
Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.