I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.
Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.
We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.
My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.
Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit.
When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down.
I think I'm different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.
I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.
Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.
You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.
Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.
An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.
I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical.
Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.
If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.
If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.
