Quotes About Reflection

I will never be known as the former President of Zaire.

I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, 'Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!' If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I'm sure you could compare to, it's just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down.

I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.

Comparing President Obama with the great leaders who have come before him is painful.

When a party loses a national election to someone such as President Trump, it's time to rethink everything.

I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is something about doing it over that length of time that says something. That's seven U.S. presidents and five presidents of McDonald's.

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

I think it's very important for every player after a long season, whether it's good or bad, to get total rest. Not just physically and mentally from basketball and the pressure on the court, but the pressures outside, too. Then, when you come back, everything's exciting again.

I thought I should have a Rolls, for prestige, so I ordered one. But when it came, I realized that I didn't really need it.

I love great prestige television, but because I make television, sometimes I don't want to, like, you know, fall into a very heavy cerebral drama.

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.

For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

I won't pretend that being booted out the cabinet wasn't painful.

I don't pretend to be perfect.

I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for hours.

I think in your 30s you can still pretend you're in your 20s, or at least maintain some semblance of youth. Forty is when you've got to stop denying the inevitable.

Often, when I finish a film, I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.'

It's not like I pretend the past doesn't exist or that I'm not proud to be a part of it.

I don't pretend to be a great interviewer; I don't even pretend to be good at my job.