You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.
Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.
I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.
I came from Winnipeg and a small-town background, and I wouldn't say a depressed area, but Winnipeg has never been a rich area like Toronto.
The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.
Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
There's no statistical evidence that human beings have an ability to move in and out of the markets effectively. It's next to impossible.
Si diéramos a la comida, la alegría y las canciones más valor que al oro, este sería sin duda un mundo más feliz
Tiho, o tiho govori mi jesen; Šuštanjem lišća i šapatom kiše. Al zima srcu govori još tiše. I kada sniježi, a spušta se tama, U pahuljama tišina je sama.
A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.
I think everybody knows that on November 7th more people voted for Al Gore than George Bush, a fact that has been documented time and time again.
As far as diversity's concerned, there's me, there's Al Madrigal, there's Aasif Mandvi. But I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out.
As I've told my three daughters, all of whom I've at one time encouraged to go into macro trading, any man or woman can do anything to which they set their heart and mind.
Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.
Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.
When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always one that they check twice and security and I'm the one that they open my bag and the one they pull to the side to check the visa.
With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?
Bruce Wayne: I watched you die. Ra's al Ghul: I told you I was immortal.