Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.
Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.
I'm spoiled. All of my adult jobs have left me with complete freedom to come up with what I wanted.
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.
Many people leave government disillusioned about its ability to achieve change and cynical about politicians. I left with rather opposite lessons.
We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.
Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power and control over you.
I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.
You'd go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the left, and that was the last that we'd see of them until we were coming home.
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.
China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.
I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.
Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.
