August 4 Birthdays

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones weve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.

We do not wish to have nuclear weapons on New Zealand soil or in our harbors. We do not ask, we do not expect, the United States to come to New Zealands assistance with nuclear weapons or to present American nuclear capability as a deterrent to an attacker.

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

Before I was on Idol, I just sat at home and played video games all day long. Now I get to travel and work towards my dream. Its the best feeling ever.

Saudi men have sisters, mothers, and wives, and in my working experience, I have had tremendous support from Saudi men. I really dont think that Saudi women are oppressed or abused.

...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.