The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.
A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.
Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an obnoxious sponsor, I'll be out protesting again.
If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.
The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
Eversmann: Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.
Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.
Life can be a mystery, love can be a mistake, laughter can turn into tears, but these are chances we'll have to take.
I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.
You know, I'm really bad on the computer. I'm really lame, man. I read and hang out with my kids. I've turned into a five year old.
A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.
