"Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you."

-- Bill Cosby

#Success Quotes #Determination Quotes #Commitment Quotes

“Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to Americaâ€™s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed.”

Source : David K. Shipler (2008). “The Working Poor: Invisible in America”, p.300, Vintage
“Cristiano reminds me of German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up. Cristiano is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem: Leo Messi.”
“Routine is part of coping.”

Source : "Filmmaker on 'Seeking a Friend's' origins". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2012.
“If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.”
“You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.”

Source : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Alice Alone”, p.68, Simon and Schuster
“I have empathy for the person who is being interviewed and written about with all kinds of misperceptions and misconceptions and flat-out lies. So I feel for them, I feel their pain. I know what that is like.”
“I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.”

Source : "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. April 23, 2012.
“In some cases, I allow the edge of the set, the edge of my own artificial, artistic imposition, to show up because I don't want to hide from that. I want to acknowledge that there is a living human and a living eye and a living mind and a living heart responding to what's going on out there.”

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