Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.
Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force us to think in Therefore threatening ways?
When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.
The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.
It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.
I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.
I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.
I dress for a certain type of girl that I like. Women dress for us, they dress to attract us, so we should at least show that gratitude to them, you know what I'm saying?
The bottom line is that red carpet helps us broaden the appeal of the brand. Calvin Klein used to be about a very specific woman, but we've dressed so many different women at awards.
Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant.
Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.
The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.
Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution.
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
He left us and we rejoiced; then an even more unbearable person came.
The most useful holy war is the one fought against your own passions.
When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet.
