You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.
I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.
Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.
I think 'Charming Billy' ultimately is a novel about faith and what we believe in and, above all, what we choose to believe in.
I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.
My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.
Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.
I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.
On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes.
What does he stand for?
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.
Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
You can ask me about my beliefs on things; that's cool. But I think to lump in and say, You follow this person, so then, wow, who are you?' Ask me who I am.
Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.
History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.
