We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present.
Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.
But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.
I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.
There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.
By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.
I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining Ramones.
Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.
