From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.
What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.
I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best government is the one t...
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy...
I didn't go to acting school.
I was a total dork in high school.
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.
I've thought about going back to school.
My parents are high school sweethearts.
I went to high school with Al Capone.
My parents were both high-school music teachers.
I was a high school throw-out.
Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.
After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
In high school I went on about three dates.
I used to like doing school plays.
