When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.
I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.
I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.
My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.
I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.
You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.
Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.
I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
