Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.
I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.
My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.
I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me.
You see guys getting in trouble, but you also see the good in people. It's just a matter of always learning.
You've got to be a Lakers fan growing up in L. A. with all these championships.
I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result.
No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!
I mean, you take a look at this, it's one way. [Mexicans] get the jobs, they get the factories, they get the cash, and all we get - we get illegal immigration and we get drugs.
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.