Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun.
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by anybody, including dictators.
Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.
I think every single girl has something different and special about her. You find one who clicks with your vibe.
What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.
Every makeup artist or stylist with whom I work has many special ideas, tips, and creations. I can always learn so much from them.
Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they remain stuck in a narcissistic version of themselves, too.
Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.
I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.
Faculty X is simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present. After all, we know perfectly well that the past is as real as the present, and that New York and Singapore and Lhasa and Stepney Green are all as real as the p...
It seems like every day you have to deal with problems, interpersonal problems, survival, and so on and so forth. But you only have one problem and there is one solution to that problem. Isn’t that nice to think it is so simple? If there is such a ...
"I won't tie up the mule in a horse's place," says the widow.
Better be kind at home than burn incense in a far place.
None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot.
Tie up the hen that eats at your place and lays eggs elsewhere.