The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family - her father owned a pizzeria!
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
The beauty of music is that everyone hears it their own way, and every song you hear leaves an impression on you that alters the way you hear everything from that point on.
Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me - it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.
Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.
The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.
Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.
I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate.
