Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
There's no relationship to the narrative anymore. People want their own interpretation of history. We're compartmentalizing, forgetting what came directly before, like it's not a big deal. That, to me, is a crime.
I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.
The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.
But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.
My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.
My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.
When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.
I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.
If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.
People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.
If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.
I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back.
My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same trap as me.
The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.
I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
When I was a schoolkid, I went to Castleton quite a few times. We'd be there studying rocks, going down these big hills. It was a great place!
