Quotes About Progress

Latinos can do anything.

Our society can only become one of two things, it can be become what we let it become or it can become what we make it, and I choose the latter.

I have so much history with Just For Laughs. My career took off there.

You are a star only when the public accepts you, and it doesn't matter where you are coming from, and what kind of a launch you are getting - everyone has to begin somewhere.

I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.

As far as it growing, I believe it is always necessary to evolve. I am not one to rest on my laurels.

You can't sit back, rest on laurels and think about the past - what the journey has been.

You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.

I think that I've been living on my laurels.

It really doesn't matter what you've done in the past. We just don't rest on our laurels.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people.

It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

'The Cosby Show' - no one thought there's doctors and lawyers who are married and live in brownstones! Back then no one would have thought we would have an African-American president. They would have laughed in your face.

Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.

Every album is like starting our career over again. We don't get blase, we don't get lazy.

I don't think that what we need is an eternal leader.

Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not.

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career.

I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!

If the social evolution leads to jokes, I use them.

If there's an opportunity open that leads to an even bigger opportunity, you're going to take it.

I'm definitely one of those people who think that everything you do leads up to the moment where you are now.