Comedy's all math, figuring out the timing.
Jeffrey Wright
Recitation: by Male by Female
I grew up around a mix of a lot of people, so I got a lot of different perspectives. As a kid, I appreciated that.
Jermaine Fowler
PeopleAppreciatedKidUpDifferent
You can never really know what a record's going to be.
John Gourley
YouKnowNeverGoingRecordReally
There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.
Maynard James Keenan
DoctorChoicesLawyerArtistNever
There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.
Maxine Waters
BusinessHistoryComfortableSlave
I went down the creative path in my teen years, and when I was in high school, in my junior year, I would perform at this program that was very similar to 'School of Rock.' That was when I started writing and realized that's what I wanted to do.
Amber Mark
PathCreativeSchoolTeenWriting
In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history.
Stewart Udall
AgeHistoryGovernmentAmericanMost
I totally respect fraternities.
Trevor Jackson
RespectTotally
Thousands of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury's believing their word over a police officer's are slim to none.
Michelle Alexander
PolicePeopleYearGuiltyKnowOdds
Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of American Ballet Theatre, takes a lot of perseverance.
Misty Copeland
PerseveranceWomenTheatreAmerican
I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.
Mitch Kapor
OrganizingDownCreateWayPieces
When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
Lorna Luft
MotherHeartLookBackFeelings
One thing you get from me is peace, love, and positivity.
Logic
LovePeaceMeYouPositivityGet
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