He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.
We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.
Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.
The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.
When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.
I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.
Potential is universal. Opportunity is not.
NSA, the only part of government that actually listens.
Great businesses turne on a little pinne.
Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.
I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.