How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness.
I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.
However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it’s like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.
I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.
Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.
To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.
Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.
The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.
Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.
The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
I'm a proud fighter for the little guy and the people of my state who are struggling to make ends meet. That's what Louisiana values are about.
What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.
Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.
Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.
