My uncle, my dad always MADE sure I had guard skills. But as far as DEFENDING everybody, that wasn't really my mindset until my rookie YEAR.

Everything about my JOURNEY to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from GOING to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five MINUTES in the DOOR with buyers.

As a KID, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a HISTORY teacher like my DAD.

You've GOT to have something to eat and a LITTLE love in your life before you can hold STILL for any DAMN body's SERMON on how to behave.

I THINK the prom is very serious ALSO. It's an American RITUAL, it's a RITE of passage, and it's very much a PART of this country.

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the DIRECTOR wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine SAID no, I don't WANT any comedians in this.

The PRINCIPAL task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear BEHIND his FUNCTIONS as MUCH as possible. We are pilots, not SERVANTS.

An able, disinterested, PUBLIC-spirited press, with TRAINED intelligence to know the RIGHT and COURAGE to do it, can PRESERVE that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

I'm always AMAZED when a pitcher becomes angry at a HITTER for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I WOULD think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.