Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.
Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.
Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place.
The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
For me, conferences are like little mental vacations: a chance to go visit an interesting place for a couple of days, and come back rested and refreshed with new ideas and perspectives.
When you tour, it's so hard on the body. Being in one place is cool. It's a more stable environment.
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
There is a role for government, but no matter how much money the government spends, it will never be able to take the place of parents and strong families.
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these things I'd wanted to do for years.
I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.
It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home.
It's a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of being at home wherever you go because that's where your community is.
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
