Quotes About Values

I didn't want 'Ramy' to be a commercial, like 'Hey, Muslims are good!' We're underrepresented, so the instinct when we get an opportunity like this is to show people that we're good, that we have the same shared values. What's more important to me is showing that we have the same flaws.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

See, my relationship with Salman is of mutual love. But just because he is a good friend of mine, I wouldn't want to use him for a cameo in my film or ask him to endorse my film. That is not me.

Well, it's hard for me to call anybody my 'friend' because when I say 'friend,' like, I'm from the South and friends have grown up with you, went to school with you, stuff like that.

I don't go out with the plan, 'Let me find a celebrity to go date.' That's just not something you do. I'm just looking for a good person, someone who can be my friend, and someone I can have fun with. She doesn't have to be a celebrity; she can be a regular chick. She's got to be smart, though. I like smart women.

The generation who will watch 'Not Safe For Work', my generation, don't care who plays a part.

In my life, I'm just looking for that life of integrity that my father had. I have a good heart; I'm not a heartbreaker.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

I always say that my motto when it comes to children is: My job is not to get you into Harvard, it's to get you to heaven.

I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.

If I fought like I was looking for a place in history, it would ruin me as a person. I don't think history is worth selling my soul.

In my house, it's family first - but I was spending most of my time at the church. So, I was saying 'family first,' but I wasn't showing that. I didn't like the message that sent my daughter.

At one point, I just decided that it might be more creatively rewarding to put my time into writing on stuff that I could really be proud of rather than trying to get a one-episode part on 'Modern Family' or something.

I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

If you stick your head above the parapet and you have an opinion, and you spout family values and morality and all that, you'd be pretty naive to think that everybody would go, 'Oh, he's great, I love him.'

The term 'sell out' is juvenile and naive.

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

Life is too short to have anybody named McMahon in mine.

If you have a character named Captain America, he is, by default, a political character.

America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps to children and expectant mothers to full-fledged bum-and-nose-wiping ones.

Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories that comprise your company's narrative.