Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.
At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.
My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location.
Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.
Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.
In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.
Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.
Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place.
The things that have taken place over my career have been unbelievable. I have a lot of great moments to cherish.
I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.
