The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Sometimes, when there's a video montage. I'm thinking, 'That's my life. Oh, my God, I did that. ' Yeah, it's amazing.
Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do. . . but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything.
Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.
If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.
Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.
Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.
Recall that Hillary Clinton was all for toppling [Moammar] Gadhafi then didn't listen to her own people on the ground. And then of course, when she lied about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, she invited more terrorist attacks.
When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her. . . But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.