Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
There are days I'm feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, 'Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.' That always keeps me going.
My mom, you know, took off when I was about 6. What ended up happening is I ended up being with my grandparents.
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.
What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.
I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.
I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.
If you want a player to serve and volley more, you need to teach them to do that more, how to move at the net.
You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.
You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.
I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.
I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.
Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.
I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.
My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
