You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on. It's the hardest thing.
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the ...
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.
I feel special. Most women will have only one menopause, and they will hate it. I will have two, and when the second one comes, I will know what is coming. I am having my extra menopause as a cure. I have endometriosis.
In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do no...
So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have read, and I have not read those things which I ought to have read, and there is no health in me -- if by health you mean an inclusive and coherent knowl...
The man’s rights and the woman’s rights are the same size. They have the right to have their opinions and desires respected, to have a 50 percent say in decision making, to live free from verbal abuse and physical harm. Their children’s rights ...
I never have sympathy for those that have been blinded by the path of God. You chose to walk into the light, not realizing that you were already chained within the darkness. When a hand was offered to you, you looked up into the sky, and bowed your h...
Obnoxious Girl: I'll have a Ketel Cosmo, with Red Bull - and some bread ASAP. Andrew Largeman: ...We don't have bread. Obnoxious Girl: What do you mean you don't have bread, how can you not have bread? Andrew Largeman: ...we're a Vietnamese restauran...
Sarah: Give me the child. Jareth: Sarah, beware. I have been generous up 'til now. I can be cruel. Sarah: Generous? What have you done that's generous? Jareth: *Everything*! Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that the child be taken. I...
The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
I feel that we are often taken out of our comfort zones, pushed and shoved out of our nests, because if not, we would never know what we could do with our wings, we would never see the horizon and the sun setting on it, we would never know that there...
In seeking to understand this gendered difference in the perception of prisoners, it should be kept in mind that as the prison emerged and evolved as the major form of public punishment, women continued to be routinely subjected to forms of punishmen...
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.
You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.
