'The Voice' gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn't know what that would look like or sound like. It allowed people to see that potential.
I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.
I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.
History shows that Americans believe in doing the right thing.
I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.
Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.
Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.
I think if there is a God, it's very important that he has a sense of humour - otherwise, you are in for a very miserable afterlife.
When you're out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you'll face some backlash. But mostly, I've received support.
When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.
Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.
What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.
It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that's why I'm going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk.
You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.
Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.
