What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.
As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.
What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.
People used to say that advertising wasn't in Google's DNA, and that's obviously not true anymore. They used to say that display advertising isn't in Google's DNA, and that's not true any more.
We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, whether those bodies are considered disabled or not.
If misfortune finds us, it will not find a home among us, for our hearts will give it no berth, as we birth the fortunes, misfortune missed.
But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.
If I get some Bruce Lee nun-chucks that he actually used in a movie, those are going in the case. Those will never be used. Those will never be touched.
I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.
Though our trials are diverse, there is one thing the Lord expects of us no matter our difficulties and sorrows: He expects us to press on.
We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed.
Instead of letting our emotions run amok, we can use our minds as tools to build or create realities that serve us better
Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.
When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!
I'm used to riding horses. My father used to breed horses when I was a child. I grew up in Tipperary, in the country, and lots of people have horses there.
Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
I used to be super trendy and totally sexy. But I look back now and I used to want everything short and low cut and you really can't do it all.
Most of us only dream, some of us go and get their dreams. Dreamers know failure; dreamers in action know victory.
We realize too late that President Bush shouldn't have taken us into Iraq, and President Obama shouldn't have taken us out.
