I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math. |
I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites. |
I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule. |
I've learned about the strength of being an individual and standing up for what you believe in... saying what you believe. |
If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do. |
If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join. |
It gives them an opportunity to engage with each other, talk about ideas and then figure out creative ways to take their ideas to the next step where they can then take action to make something happen, |
It's been quite a battle for my wife to get me to buy clothes, I just wear the same ones all the time, I don't care. |
It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself. |
It's important because young people need to be motivated and inspired and then channeled into community building because they are the ones who have the most energy, the most time, the most to lose, |
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way. |
Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from. |
Most everybody has some very traumatic event that takes place in their life, ... Whether it's an accident like that, or it's dealing with alcoholism or drugs, we don't have guaranteed, perfectly scripted lives . . . It's been an amazing hardship to lose the leader of our family. |
People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models. |
Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies? |