"Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand."

“Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.”

Source : "Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 28, 2011.

“There's lots of people-this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.”

“Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.”

“I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I'm not going to sing something if it doesn't make sense to me, or if it makes me look like I'm begging someone or I'm weak, because that's not me.”

Source : "Sharon Jones on soul music, cancer, and Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Kyle Fowle, music.avclub.com. January 15, 2014.

“The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape.”

“I relate to any prison movie, as long as it has some authenticity.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture.”

Source : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)