"You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold."

“Brands and branding are the most significant gifts that commerce has ever made to popular culture.”

“The hurt affects your ability to go forward.”

“I don't keep up on a lot of the business trends.”

“We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.”

“A sound body keeps a sound mind.”

Source : "Fire Still Burns Inside Smokin' Joe Frazier" by Vincent M. Mallozzi, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 2006.

“To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.”

“God is never late, but He sure is slow.”

“I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best.”

Source : "‘Addicted to Fresno’ Director Jamie Babbit on Hiding Pregnancies and Embracing Diversity". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 1, 2015.