If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.
When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.
I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.
People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.
I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.
When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.
So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.
Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
I like vintage shopping, but I also like to mix in high-end.
I was a high-school dropout; I was a loner.
The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
I have a high tolerance for discomfort.
Multitudes are now turning to Christ in all parts of the world. How unbearably tragic it would be, though, if the millions of Asia, South America and Africa were led to believe that the best we can hope for from the Way of Christ is the level of Chri...
There are many ways of attaining the various levels of human bliss. But one of the highest states of mental, spiritual and physical happiness is readily reached by way of a good meal, pleasant company, and easy seats by a good log fire. (Preferably t...
The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generati...
When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.
My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.