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I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

Great hopes make great men.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

I don't want to make niche-oriented music.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest.

It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.