If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
I don't know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that's become what we generalize as drama.
We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
People often get very entangled in their work and life, so de-stressing is very important to keep generating fresh ideas and provide satisfaction with one's activities.
Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.
I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.
Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size.
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
The route of expropriation, and especially in energy matters, is not what most promotes investment or generates greater confidence.
I'm 100% Norwegian. Three generations removed and all continuous inbreeding of Norwegian of Minnesota and Iowa, so I traveled to Norway before.
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.
