Quotes

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I've got a lot of chickens, I've got a horse, I've got a kitty-cat, I've got a lot of goats, I've got animals all over the place.

I lead a charmed life.

I feel like it's my discipline in life that has made my music career so long and successful.

I watched 'Dawn of the Dead' when I was young and I was intrigued. I like the whole zombie thing - what would it be like in real life?

I've been able to change my life, change some of my friends' lives, my family's life.

Music was a great way for me to express myself, there's topics I talk about in my songs, which I wouldn't have a conversation about in real life.

Throughout life, you keep exercising your faith, so when you get into different challenges, you decide, 'this time I'm going to trust God,' and God comes through for you. That's how it kept building and building for me, so I can be confident and go into places knowing that God's got me. That's why a lot of times I can be fearless.

One day I was in church, and I felt a real connection with God. I've no clue how old I was. I was small. But I feel like from that day I've been different. I've seen life differently.

But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years.

In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.

The NAACP was not a black-run, black-originated organization. It was run by 21 white, socialist, atheist, Marxist Democrats. It was the antithesis of Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.'s community at that time, which was capitalist, Christian, very pro-life, and pro-America.

Dubois, later in his life, would join the Communist party and renounce his American citizenship. His 'integration at all costs' message would, decades later, continue to influence the community's self-perception.

I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.

Going onstage - that's my joy. You know like when you're in school and you're just waiting for the bell to go off so you can leave the class and go and play outside? That's me in life.

I lived a significant portion of my life before the Internet and smart phones.

Rooster Teeth has always had a big following in the gamer community, and we are lifelong gamers ourselves.

Some people see life as many steps up and try to forget where they are coming from, you understand? A little step in life on a commercial or a material level is a good step, but a big step does not mean a strong step - you tend to lose your roots - and if you don't be careful, you can fall.

My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy.

The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.

You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

On our show, I must tell you, it was... the 60s was a period of time when everything was free love. People made love to each other. It was a very open life, you know?

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.