Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.
My children come first and the career comes in around that.
It certainly made a film writing career for me.
I gave up my childhood for a career.
I never felt my career was going backwards.
I don't really have any strategy for my career.
I felt like my career was out of my hands.
I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers.
I don't wish my career on anyone.
You're always thinking, What's the next move - the career, the money.
I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.
The key to understanding my career is that I was never into technology. From the beginning, I brought an outsider's point of view, which is why I write for a layman's publication.
It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.
Republicans have succeeded with a social agenda that gets people to vote against their own interests while the Democrats are so elitist that they can't tap into the anger that's real.
if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessl...
Impartial, compassionate, brave, and understanding…these are the traits that come with putting the Noble Eightfold Path into practice. By following this path, anyone can become the kind of leader the Buddha hoped to see—a leader of peace.
When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.
They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.
He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.
But his political sense kept up a persistent itch that said: A, Given ignorance in the mix, stupidity was at least as common in politics as astute maneuvering; B, Crisis always drew insects; and, C, Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had...
