Quotes About Values

I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.

For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.

Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don't see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to one another. Their relationship wasn't something to be constantly examined or picked apart.

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married.

If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.

You get people criticising people who are happy to sit on the bench, picking up money.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

I've played some horrid characters in the 70 pictures or so that I've made. But none of the roles degraded my sex. And I've never made a movie I'd be ashamed to have any of my friends or family see.

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

Jefferson Pierce is the epitome of what black men are: He loves his wife, his children, and the community.

I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong.

One of the core pillars of the modern American conservative movement is its emphasis on personal responsibility.

Some people in the press don't respect people in life. I can put my head on my pillow and sleep great because I respect everyone.

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.

I care more about my pipe than about fame and honors.

I don't want to be the Pied Piper of fast food.

The Pirate Bay was never for the money.

My father instilled in me the need to behave correctly on and off the pitch.

We have to start processing what we're really made of in America. American character is not dead. American integrity and honesty are not dead. When we're backed up against the wall against the largest corporations in the history of corporations, it's there.