I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
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There were plenty of role models for us. My mother believed in education and she put all three of us through college at Grambling. She did not have a high school education, but it was something she impressed upon us. After I graduated, I left Texarkana for California, because I knew I could not get a job here. I was in business with certification and accounting, so I figured it was best to go out West. So I went there. It was still tough to get in that field, but things opened up for me.
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At one point, I thought that maybe humor was the best way to deal with it. I figured maybe I should get 12 old Jewish comedians, you know, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, to sit around a table and have them riff off 'The Protocols.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Everything has been figured out except how to live.
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The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.
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Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it.
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With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith.
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Whether people will buy a device just to watch video - it's not clear, ... So far the answer's been no, because there are several devices out which play video and none of them has been successful yet. So, um - so far, nobody's figured out the right formula.
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The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
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I just tried to learn his moves. And after I did that, I just took it from there. I figured I was getting him with (the left) so I was just sticking with that.
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And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.
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No big deal. We figured the Rams were going to score some points anyway. When you think the score's going to be 30-30 at some point, 7-0 is nothing.
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.
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I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.
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It scared the hell out of us. When we figured out it was the cops, there was a sense of relief.
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Nobody has figured out the meanig of life, yet almost everyone knows how to make pudding... I don't get it.
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Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
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Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.
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I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can.
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