I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.
Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if it comes froma weak hand and is imperfectly formed, it inspires the ethical spirit to constantly renewed creation.
In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.
If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.
One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments. . . . It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.
I got into comics on John Byrne's run of the X-Men and the Dark Phoenix Saga. I got in around X-Men 95, right when it turned to the new X-Men. So that whole family, all those characters are kind of my favorite characters, just the X-Men world.
Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.
It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences. '
I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.