you can win a talent show and be so famous that you cant walk down the street,but no-one knows you next monday.
For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.
Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down.
Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.
It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.
It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.
I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.
I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.
A lot of relationships have ended for me in my 20s, because I knew that eventually those people would wanna settle down and have kids.
The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.
I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.
Rather than continue kicking the can down the road, let us gather up the can, and deposit it in a roadside trash receptacle.
But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.
I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it.
Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it.
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
King Louie: Ha-ha, so you're the mancub? Crazy. Mowgli: I'm not as crazy as you are, put me down.
A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.
People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.
Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.
