Quotes About Transition

I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.

I'm looking forward to the time they describe me as the former president. And, of course, there are pressures from my own party and other Sudanese parties also, and I succumb to those pressures, but I hope as soon as possible I can find an exit out of this.

I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only time that I've ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories over such a long time, and I was petrified that I'd get bored.

Lots of people said that I have been a comic actor for such a long time, but as a director I was very serious.

There isn't such a thing as death. It's just a departure.

Any divorce is going to suck.

Going from toting a machine gun in Afghanistan... to using a bed pan, and I can't even put my own socks on - that was hard to kind of suck it up.

When I first got here, I thought L.A. sucked. I hated it. I had this pretentious Manhattan thing. But now I've made such a life here, and I'm so happy here. They're just really different places. I can't really compare them because there's great things about both of them.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

Middle and high school sucked.

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.

I look like a dude and feel like a dude, and it sucks. But eventually I'll flip, and I'll present as female.

A lot of people don't want to grow up because it sucks.

High school sucks! It's hard.

Yeah I do think featherweight is done for me. It sucks because I worked hard and fought a lot of hard fights and did a lot of things right to move up the rankings and I have to abandon all that moving to 155 starting fresh.

People we love have to move away or move on all the time. And it sucks. And it's heartbreaking. But it's a real part of life.

If you take a look back at my body of work in the ring, I'm so happy that I had that NXT run... It sucks that my in-ring career came to an end, but I'm glad that I had that full-year body of work.

I only lived in Sudan until I was four years, so I cannot really relate to that. It is just a different lifestyle.

My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.

I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed.

The sudden collapse of the monarchy that had ruled Russia for three hundred years led to chaos. Russia immediately became, as one participant put it, 'the freest country in the world.'

You go from being with the guys all the time in the locker room, in practice, having a militarized brain in terms of this schedule, and then, all of a sudden, you are on your own. You lose a sense of purpose; you lose a sense of yourself. And you lose confidence. You find yourself saying, 'I was the best at this, and now I'm not the best.'

I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.