Quotes About Hope

As artists, our primary function is not to be educators - but we are at a time in history, where for us, our history needs to give context for stories that we hope to tell down the road.

When I come to schools like Norton Primary Academy and meet children who have their lives and careers before them, I hope in some small way that I can inspire them to do better by sharing my own story with them and telling them never to give up on their dreams.

I plan to primary Joe Manchin in 2018, and I'm asking you to stand with me, and hopefully, hopefully we can build a better tomorrow.

I am a prime example of what the American dream is.

If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope.

I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

It's only under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership that the country can foresee a bright future.

You know, Prime Minister Trudeau's got me. His work with First Nations. He's got everybody. He's going to take us where we need to go.

I just always lived in stories in my head. I believed I was a Martian princess until I was 10. I believed I was never going to die, and I'd been adopted and put on Earth because there was a war... and still sometimes, as I get older, I hope for my immortal life on Mars.

When I got the deal to do 'J. Edgar,' which was really the brainchild of Brian Grazer, 'Milk' hadn't come out yet. We had just completed principal photography, and it was still basically this little film where we just really hoped someone would see it.

When the people share everything in the state, then will we truly reach the goal of the Min Sheng Principle, which is Confucius' hope of a 'great commonwealth.'

This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.

A relationship isn't a priority of mine but, you know, I'm hoping soon enough.

As adults, we realize that the real future lies in the hands of our children and grandchildren. Our first priority should be the nurturing and education of America's youth.

I'm looking at the world through a very positive prism.

None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.

I grew up in a family where my brother was in prison. My father was in prison.

I escaped my destiny. The odds were that I would end up in prison, but I didn't.

I don't ever want to go back to prison.

Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, 'What is he doing?' She says you don't sleep. And yet, she has the greatest sense of humor and this light that comes out of her.

There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.