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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
I'm someone who thinks that where there's a void, I need to fill it, but I'm trying to have patience and a little bit of discipline.
I've never relegated the lip-synch to a lower form of entertainment. Lip-synching is an art unto itself. A lot of people can't do it.
The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.
When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.
The projects I'm working on are all diverse, but each represents a different passion for me. I'm constantly looking to stretch myself.
The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes
I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.
Ladies and gentlemen, Im going to prove to you not only that Freddy Quimby is guilty, but that he is also innocent of not being guilty
Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.
Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.
The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes.
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.
We all get one life to live here. It's 2012, and for gay and lesbian couples who are in love, not to be able to be married is so absurd.
I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised.
I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
Even if I played for a million years, I’d never come close to Maradona. Not that I’d want to anyway. He’s the greatest there’s ever been.
If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important.
Best way to measure your passion is simply asking would you do it for free? If money is your motivation, then it's not really your passion.
When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior.
We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.
There is a weirdness about having a famous pre-pubescent in the house when you are going through the trials and tribulations of adolescence.
You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.
Rock had a huge impact. Anything that the older generation hates is usually loved by kids. Nothing much changes - that still continues today.
I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
I think it's important for women to know that you don't have to compromise your fullness, your dopeness. You can be everything you want to be.
Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
Honesty is a foundation, and it's usually a solid foundation. Even if I do get in trouble for what I said, it's something that I can stand on.
It's funny, because I'm a man of strong opinions and when I make one, I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.
I like fashion. I like being in shape. I like to look nice and I like to make money, but I don't think that's the most, No. 1, important thing.
I was a chubby, unathletic kid and conformed to every possible stereotype you could imagine of someone who would end up in public broadcasting.
Mine's a pretty simple strategy: there's not a lot of talent here, but there's a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy.
Look, a lot of women would be turned off with hearing me say how hot I think Brad Pitt is! Know what I mean? So I probably don't help my cause.
I don't understand why brothers can't understand the fact, or even just accept the fact, you can still be a man without having to commit crimes.
I think black men especially should go to therapy and seek out mental help, because we need it. Even if you don't think you need it, we need it.
If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.
We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.
You have to make a decision, what you want to do in life, ... Your deal can be, you can leave tomorrow. Soon as you leave, you will be forgotten.
There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.
I think I'm like the kid who loved hip hop, and all of a sudden - I don't know what it was - it started to put me in positions to do great things.
Radio was so important to everybody back then; there was no TV. Columbia Square was the epitome of radio. Everything was modern. It was beautiful.
That's what people don't understand: whatever you do in life, you have to be consistent at it because that's when you'll reap the rewards from it.
I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.
The man who was known as 'no drama Obama' during the campaign has given us nothing but depleting and infuriating drama since he arrived in office.
In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'