Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
When you go to a show on opening night, or even the second performance, it is at the very beginning of what it will become. By the end of this run, the show will actually be what it is intended to be.
Remember: the universe neither judges, nor interprets, nor second guesses your will. If it did, there would be no poverty, no hunger, no suffering.
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.
The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.
At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!
Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President.
I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.
Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.
You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.
Christopher Plummer once told me that he never orders a wine without first confirming that the restaurant has a second bottle in case he loves it.
When you take a subject and reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.
I hate clocks. They tick. Other things make noises in their time and need, but clocks mechanically beat the seconds to death.
When I see my kids totally into their Legos, it brings me back to the days I was hanging out and playing with my monster models. It brings me there in a second.
President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.
We spend the first half of our lives making ourselves sick, and the second half of our lives trying to make ourselves un-sick.” – Kevin W. Reese
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
