I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.
A broken mirror means good luck if you want it to.
It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.
Remember: things only have the meaning and importance you give them.
Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.
It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity – another man’s, I mean.
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.
But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.
I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.
If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.
People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.
Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.
There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with immigration.
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured.
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
