Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
The people who do the scoring and the music for movies are very talented, really special people.
Any child that wants special attention is arrogant”.
Special is one... If it's more than one, then it's ordinary.
You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you h...
No man can roan or inhabit the Canadian North without it affecting him, and the artist, because of his constant habit of awareness and his discipline in expression, is perhaps more understanding of its moods and spirit than others are. He is thus bet...
The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly...
To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of...
What we mean when we say that something is "cultural" is that it is roughly similar to what we find in other members of the particular group we are considering, and unlike what we would find in members of a contrast group. This is why it is confusing...
As the incidence and fear of rape on college campuses have increased, the term rape has been generalized to mean 'misuse; diminish the effects of; steal; defeat': "I just went to the mall and raped my VISA." "My dad phoned this morning and raped my b...
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded wi...
The world is full of lots of people play acting and hurling stuff about, unconscious of the effects. And there are large group karmic things going on through history that none of us should ever take personally. Rushing about trying to rectify the sin...
There's almost always a church youth group at the soup kitchen. I have yet to see an atheists' youth group. Yeah, I know, religious people don't have a monopoly on doing good. I'm sure that there are many agnostics and atheists out there slinging mas...
...and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.
I don't think I ever got parts that interested me. Well, I did occasionally, but more often than not, they did not interest me.
Georgians aren't interested in labels or affiliation, they're interested in solutions. And that begins by making Washington smaller and America bigger!
I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.
I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.
I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.
Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.
