Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.
I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.
The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.
Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but it made continuity from album to album and that was our way of doing it.
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.
If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All these hot girls on Baywatch in tiny little red bathing suits running around saving lives.
There are only two kinds of employees that I've run across in 30 years. There are ones that get results, and ones that make excuses. If you're in that second camp, you're not going to like Dish.
Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.
For the health of my mind, body, and spirit, I choose to walk with: Gratitude not Envy; Faith not Worry; Confidence not Fear; Kindness not Anger.
There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.
If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.
I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.
I'm not a big fan of 'Jersey Shore' and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.
