I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.
Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.
I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.
I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.
A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.
As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.
I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.
Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
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