Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright - and makes me really happy.
This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.
TV is easier: it's all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.
It is funny how it is almost more painful to fall over and scrape your knee than to be blown up. Your body goes into incredible protection mode.
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
With 'The Vampire Diaries,' it's not just a tease, especially with the relationships. You're not sitting there going, 'God, I wish they'd get it over with and kiss!' There's no teasing, they jump right into the action.
I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
You don't see many people crying over the wrong they do to God every time His word is neglected or when one willfully sins.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.
And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.
The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.
The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.
Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.
My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over.
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
