Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.
If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.
Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.
You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
I think that when Michelle Pfeiffer goes out, she's exactly what I aspire to be - she always looks beautiful and sexy, but she never looks like she's trying to be the center of attention.
You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently.
You can't stop wars to build tertiary teaching hospitals, but you can say, 'Let's stop for a couple of days to immunise the kids.' It has been done.
If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.
The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment.
People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.
