There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.
I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.
I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.
I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.
In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.
Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.
You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.
The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score.
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.
