In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.
So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys they’d just walk around naked at all times.
I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.
I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.
Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.
In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
For impact, tell your true story -challenges, victory, all. Build hope by helping others find themselves by your story.
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.
People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.
As a child, people were always trying to photograph and film me because it's a way for a shy person to find themselves.
Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.
The difference between writers and readers is similar to the difference between expressionism and impressionism. Writers want to express themselves and readers want to be impressed.
Those who have castrated themselves from all sin for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, are blessed; they abstain from the world.
Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent.
