D.A. McBride Quotes

I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.

On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.

So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

I can't even remember not wanting to go to film school.

We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.

I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that thinks they are going to try and sell a free model.

The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster.

IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.

Linux doesn't have IP roots.

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's current public posturing.

What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.

My family is my career.

Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

It's a real stumper to sit around and try to think in your own head, but when you go into somebody else's head that takes the foot off the breaks. You can think in someone else's head.

But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.

Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him.

God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

Put yourself in God’s hands and you can’t go wrong.

But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That’s what counts.

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

Be kind to the living.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

A rare piece of magic, don't let it FLY by you

I'm just the instrument for the song to do whatever it's supposed to do-heal, inspire or encourage. It's not all about me, it's about the song. I'm just the lucky girl who gets to sing these songs.

I was always thin. I guess I have good genes, so I never worried too much about my weight.

I have a really amazing fan club, it's contemporary but it's a little bit old school. There's a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people.

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.

My desire is to stand by the fire that burns inside of you.

I wanted to make a record that people could put on year after year after year, and it would never feel dated.

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

The Baby Boom has spawned an even bigger Grandma Boom. For every baby born, two women turn into grandmas.

There are two types of grandmothers - the ones who feel relieved when they hear the first 'Let's go home' and the ones who feel hurt. The latter are definitely in the minority.

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse and anybody could die at any time.

How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important.

Problems are gifts from heaven to help every one of us to grow but for those who are to grow the most, heaven bestows rejection.

Today is not bad just because yesterday seemed better.

Life is a book waiting to happen.

A statue stands in a shaded placeAn angel girl with an upturned faceA name is written on a polished rockA broken heart that the world forgot

Adam pressed his hand to his face. Sighed. "Right. It's just that… He died. And I'm so freaking pissed off, I swear I'd punch him in the face if he were standing right here.