I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the President trusts me to advise him on things that are important to people with disabilities!
There's nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!
So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
I suggest to wash tongues and heads with soap for some people. But I'm not sure that it would help; so you should just try to THINK.
Speak your truth with grace and integrity, even though it might upset some people. You never know who else, besides yourself, it might help.
Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.
To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.
The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.
Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.
The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were some people who were tuning in that day to see what was going on with other characters.
I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.
Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.
We aren't using Guantanamo Bay anymore to take additional terrorists. That was the perfect facility to be able to use to extract information from people to keep the American people safe.
I feel like people have more in common than the news reports. People getting along doesn't sell very well in the news. I find that to be deeply depressing.
I'm not really sure what people's preconceived notions are. I don't look at the gossip websites - it's unhealthy and I think it's a large part of what drives people in L.A. crazy.
I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.
i had a dream that there were these huge indoor swimming pools called 'lobbies' that poor people used to do mass amounts of laundry
I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.
