if I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else.

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

I'm a southern gentleman.

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth

We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.

You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.

I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

(I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

...and all the stars flowered in the sky.

You ought to forgive.

I've never been the most important thing to anybody - not even myself.

Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.

I feel like the world has just become a polyester suit that's smoldering, melting, and at some point we have to figure out how to extinguish it.

I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here.

I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.

It's not just children who need heroes.