Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.
When I look in the mirror, I also see a mother and a wife and someone I am proud to be. I see an advocate. I see a survivor.
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It’s about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.
Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
I listened to a clip someone had put up of me singing ‘I Am What I Am’ in the musical ‘La Cage aux Folles.’ I thought I was absolutely dreadful. It’s like when you see photos of yourself at parties – at the time you thought you looked so cool and glamorous but you just look a bit drunk.
Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.
Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others’ discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it’s funny.
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don’t learn nothing, cause hey, it’s not your fault, it’s his fault, over there.
My attitude is, if someone’s going to criticize me, tell me to my face.
I’m a massive fragrance fan – I think fragrance is part of someone’s hygiene, and I’m a big believer in leaving an impression through scent.
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.
It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‘How to Build a Boat.’
There’s always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself – whether it’s Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. – because that’s the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
There’s always someone following your next step.
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Play a jungle record from 1993 to someone in 1989 and it would have sounded like something so new that it would have challenged them to rethink what music was, or could be.
Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone – and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.
It’s hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.
The truth is we’re all searching. We’re all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I’m by no means someone to follow.
Sometimes getting something off your chest to someone else is an important step in coping – so you know that you’re not alone, you’re not failing, and that it is perfectly normal to feel overwhelmed or sad at times. Everybody does.
At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You’re trying to make them laugh. They can’t laugh at someone they’re looking up to.
Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.
You know you’re old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you’re barefoot.
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she’s like, ‘I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.’
I wanna be remembered as someone who broke all the norms.
As an actor, every opportunity, every role, everything that I do is an opportunity to have someone have a human experience with my work. I don’t just want it to be about a cute wardrobe and a high paycheck.
A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.
No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don’t respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.
I’m a real extrovert, but when I’m round someone new, I’m super shy.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.
What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
I’ve got big feet, so filling someone else’s big shoes doesn’t scare me.
Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!
I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.
If you love someone who’s an addict and their use is life-threatening, you don’t wait until they hit bottom because that can mean that they’re going to die. You have to do everything you can to get them in treatment.
Just because someone lives in a hut, that doesn’t mean that isn’t a good person, that that person can’t do better, that person isn’t capable of being great. And just because it’s a hut – whatever that means – doesn’t mean it’s not a home.
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.
When you love someone, and you’ve lost that one, then nothing really matters.
I think you can make fun of anything except things people can’t help. They can’t help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas – ideas don’t have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.
I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down.
It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called ‘True Friend’.
I always delegate. If someone is very good at something, whatever it is, he will be in charge.
The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don’t differentiate between snaps and chats. It’s just someone wanting to talk to you.
You just can’t be someone else all the time; you just have to be you sometimes.
