Celebrities may get all the attention in the glossies, but when athletes set an example, their words are far-reaching – deep into the inner cities, across Mid-western farmlands, up and down coasts.
I will always try to stay on the right path, listen only to my coaches and my inner voice. If there is good advice from journalists, I will take that as well.
Stand by the side of law enforcement, the men and women who are often the only semblance of hope and justice in the crime-ridden inner cities.
I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo.
I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.
A fever is an expression of inner rage.
If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.
Who doesn’t know the easy, breezy, beautiful Covergirl line? I’m so excited to be the face of the brand in Australia and help all girls find and rock their inner Covergirl!
My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.
It’s always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
The people at Dylan’s Candy Bar, they have to have an inner child and a sense of fun… and love the colors and the textures.
Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature’s need.
In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.
In the inner city, there’s a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I’ve gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
Oddly enough, government policy helped get the fast food outlets into the city. Very well-intentioned small business administration loans to encourage minority business ownership. The easiest business to get into is opening a fast-food franchise in the inner city.
I love this sport, and I want people to have the opportunities that I have. I want the kid in the inner city to know that she can be a bobsledder one day, and I want the kid in the middle of Africa to know that she can be a bobsledder one day. So the more that we can go out there and grow the sport, the better.
I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I’m getting there, slowly but surely.
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.
The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men’s minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
Magazines and opinions of you and stuff like that, those will change, but your opinion of yourself does not have to based on what other people say. So I just learned that my inner voice has to be louder than their outside voice.
One of the biggest things I learned was not to tell myself ‘no’ before someone else. As someone who’s creative, I know the inner critic can be really loud. Early on in my career, I would just listen to it and tell myself ‘no.’
Yes, I went through overt racism as a footballer in the 80s and early 90s but that was, or is, nothing compared to what the average black person in the inner cities of England goes through every day.
Not only did she represent inner and outer beauty and elegance, but all the work she did at the end of her life touched so many people. She created this extraordinary legacy.
I didn’t know that I could be an actor until I was 25 years old, and now I continue to go back to the prisons and probation camps and the inner city to say that you don’t have to go through the violence, through the trauma like I did.
Don’t try to ‘fix’ the child’s boredom – rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.
I’ve never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I’ve always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
The people I see be the most successful are the people who have an inner confidence and an inner strength that comes from the character they display away from the stage and from what their parents taught them.
Great changes cannot take place in the minds of generations of men without a corresponding change in their external symbols. There must be a harmony between the inner and the outward condition of human beings, and the progress of the one must keep pace with the progress of the other.
Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.
N.W.A. were the first great rap audio documentarians of the problems in our inner cities.
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
I don’t follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that’s a weakness, actually, that I’m too in my own bubble. But I’m really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.
I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.
For me, what is important is to bring the inner life of these characters – their strengths, contradictions, anguish and triumph – alive.
Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself – I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments – private inner thoughts when I’m not sure what will come out.
When it comes to the qualities that I look for in a partner, I’d say looks are a factor but the inner beauty is more important as it adds to the personality.
I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you’ve put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don’t do that now.
I am not sure that the inner world of teenage girls has changed. What’s most important to kids today is still the same stuff.
Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I’d be sued and I’d be thrown in prison.
I’m an inner city man, born and bred.
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.
My prayer became ‘May I find peace… May I love this life no matter what.’ I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.
I think for everyone it’s good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.
That inner narrative – the desire to understand the way I am – never really switches off.
My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I’m not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty – I read a lot, I try to learn.
It was important for me to join the White House because as I looked around Trump’s inner circle and campaign, there were not a lot of African-Americans, particularly African-American women, uniquely positioned to serve as a member of the senior staff, to serve as an assistant to the president.
We try and banish whole inner realms. Sometimes, you have to touch the thing inside you’re most afraid of and see what happens when you touch it rather than look away from it all the time.
By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.
Lingerie is my next love after clothing; I think it is what is worn underneath that really inspires a woman to feel beautiful in her clothes – that inner, secret glamour.
You have to be able to unleash your inner goofball with me.
Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.
As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
There are lots of ways to be a feminist. Beyonce, for example, is a beautiful example of feminine sensuality and is still really powerful. My character and my inner essence is more like an awkward 15-year-old boy, like a teenager backstage, like, ‘Yeah, what’s up?’ That’s what I’m trying to channel.
