My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.
I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.
We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.
I grew up within New Orleans; my greatest concern is rising water. But I think life is a process of moving items from the 'scared of' to the 'not scared of' list.
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen.
The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.
I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.
I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.
I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell theirs.
I believe in nonfat. I gain two pounds when I eat a lamb chop.
By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out is quite something.
America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.
Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits of a social order are shared in an equitable and just manner.
