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My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer less fun and less money.
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
I didn’t know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don’t know their mothers had it that’s the sad thing about depression. You know, you don’t function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.
Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.
Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
So, I’m happy to do that because it’s a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that’s the gamble I’m taking.
I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.
High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I’m a music-nerd.
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
You watch an old ‘Jeopardy!’ and the categories alone are very plain. ‘Poetry,’ or ‘Movies,’ or ‘Physics.’ If you watch it now, though, there’ll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.
In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn’t very good at sports.
There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn’t want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don’t answer.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
I’m cool with where I’m at. It’s certain things I wanna do to be better, but I’m good.
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Women, more often than not, do things which aren’t remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.
But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you’re living in a home that’s dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don’t dream like that.
For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
But what I was going to say was, I just figured I’m going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it’s like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you’re silent and listening to an idiot. That’s an epitomizing idea, getting called ‘Nothing’ for your whole high school experience.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school – he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
I write music with an exclamation point!
I think it’s interesting that ‘cologne’ rhymes with ‘alone.’
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
I didn’t get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.
It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.
Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.