Quotes About Struggle

I'm a terrible parallel parker.

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

I remember going to a funeral at a very fundamentalist church, and I just had to get out of there. I went out in the parking lot and just sobbed. I think there was a sense of loss of that little boy not knowing if he was right or wrong. Everything I grew up with I had to walk away from.

I remember being in a parking lot, I think it was in New Mexico, I was to be at a shoot-around at 9 A. M. their time. And I got off the phone with Sarah and Matthew and I sat in that parking lot and cried for a little bit. Because I had been away so much. It got to the point where I was calculating how much time I had been away from the kids.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.

I didn't know why I couldn't sing - all I knew was that it was muscular or mechanical. Then, when I was diagnosed with Parkinson's, I was finally given the reason. I now understand that no one can sing with Parkinson's disease. No matter how hard you try. And in my case, I can't sing a note.

You can have a very bad end with Parkinson's, but on the other hand, you can be like me, because I'm lucky. I'm not having a bad end.

I've always liked the downtrodden character on different shows. Before 'Parks,' I loved the Toby character on 'The Office.' I do like playing that type of thing.

It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

I'd grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

I am Anil Kapoor's daughter, so I am always compared with legends. It is a part and parcel of my life.

You know what, man, that's part and parcel of being a black person in this country: everything's harder. It just is.

I was working part-time as a cleaner while I was going to college and then babysitting after school.

A lot of people in MMA do part-time jobs.

My wife is married to a part-time husband. That's hard to do. The kids get the short end of the stick, too.

I worked part-time cleaning houses, and went to school full-time.

Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

Life requires things from you - if you're really living it and are really alive - that are really difficult and painful, and you can't avoid those things if you're really participating.

The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

I hate myself and my face in particular.

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.