I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.
The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.
So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.
It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.
I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' bits. I've always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.
I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions.
Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
The Stones can get out there and do it till they're old men. But certain groups are sad-looking to me.
I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.
It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
Being put in a group, I hate that. I don't think anyone likes it. Everyone just wants to be their own person.
There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed.
We need to know more about how group A strep interact with humans to cause so many different illnesses.
National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
