I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically.
People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.
What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands.
We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans. We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.
If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.
Gandhi: [to a group of South African bigots] You'll find there's room for all of us here.
[from trailer] Joy: Come on, group hug! You too, Anger. Anger: Don't touch me.
Mrs. Teevee: [while the group is in the tiny, cramped hallway] Somebody's touching me!
I was in a sketch group in L.A., and we were playing, like, backyards in Glendale and stuff. It was pretty ugly because we didn't have any money.
The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.
'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region.
I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.
I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.
A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'
As a label, you have to treat every group and every record as a unique entity. I think that that has been our success, rather than relying upon a fan base.
A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.
