Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody’s got to look over the shoulder of that child.
When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y’all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn’t have to work for?
My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.
How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy – I want to talk about the movie in a second – but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, ’the soft bigotry of low expectations.
This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
I grew. Going outside my comfort zone is a big one for me.
Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.
This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don’t we scale up those things that do work.
Live just because or live your life for a cause.
Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.
We think of – there are too many wars, of course, in the world as we speak, but my read on this suggests to me that water is going to be the resource into the future that we’re really – that countries, nations, are going to be fighting for control over.
We’re all cracked vessels, and we’re always in process, I think, every one of us.
I can’t count the number of people I’ve talked to over the course of my career who have said to me that the thing that they most regret is the one time they did something just for the money.
I think the issue of women’s choice is essential for a woman being able to have their lives – if they cannot control their own bodies by choosing if or when to have a child, then they cannot control their working life or anything around them.
If you don’t have courage, you can’t practice any of the other virtues.
I use the phrase “fellow citizen” all the time when referring to the – people always say, “The American people, the American people.” I prefer the phrase fellow citizen because there’s a power in that, there’s a responsibility, there’s a duty in using that phrase fellow citizen.
I love the fight. I don’t – it’s not a negative, it’s a positive, and I love the challenge. There’s that little part of me that I love proving someone wrong in that way when they have an image of me or something, or they think they have me figured out or they think I’m a certain way.
I think, for most of us is that once you get to a certain place in your career you’re not having to elbow and knock people around and audition for parts.