We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us..

Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself..

The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it..

We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of people outside of the academy..

With feminism social media just opened up its boundaries even more. Now all these different tribes of women can connect with each other, and also fin….

Africa is the future..

I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs..

The war being waged against the radical imagination, particularly around young people, is just startling. Young people are laboring under a burden of….

President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about….

People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be mor….

Happy people are rarely interesting..

I think that any time you are making a film you have to realize that the people you are talking with might be giving you misinformation. Sometimes it….

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically)….

I don't feel so strongly against remakes, but if I don't like it, I guess I just don't do it. It is what it is. Hollywood is driven by the financial ….

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans..

Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and en….

What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with ….

I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focu….

I see, from my vantage point as the vice-chair of the Legal Services Corporation, a serious crisis going on in this country. Eighty percent of low-in….

Negative people need drama like oxygen. Stay positive, it'll take their breath away..

I'm not going to play someone too far from who I am. Although I did a movie where I played a killer, and that has yet to come out. But that's someone….