I'm not one of those academics that don't do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. I have a proof of concept and it works.
I was considered a comedy magician. And - how do I put this without sounding egotistical? - it didn't take me long to realize that comedy magicians usually couldn't do comedy or magic.
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.
Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do.
All I do is convert liberals to conservatism. That's what I do, and that's why they don't like me.
You can only do what you can do in this world. If you start thinking of all the white noise out there, I think you'll go crazy.
I don't think I really do go shopping. Somehow clothes just kind of end up in my closet. I do not like shopping; I'm not into it.
Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.
Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.
When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.
One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.
I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band.
I just want to go out there and do what I can do, contribute in the ways that I can. Whether I get exposure or not, it's about winning.
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
If it is something that I want to do, then I don't think the audience will hate it. Unless I turn into a megalomaniac and start thinking that Salman Khan can do anything.
If you can do nothing else, do whatever is in your power to make the people in your life feel completely unashamed of who they are.
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.
