What I've learned about comedy people is that they're defined by the harshest level they've been to, their personal Auschwitz.
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist. " All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.
Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.
I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.
So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.
Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me. . . Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.
You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.
I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.