In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
Father: Why did you not become mine God!? God: Because you did not believe in me.
Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.
In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.
I need to find a way of retaining creative control.
Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
Walt Kowalski: [sneering and aiming his gun] Get off my lawn!
Father Janovich: Go in peace. Walt Kowalski: Oh, I am at peace.
Walt Kowalski: Get your ofay paddy ass on down the road.
Bongo: Got the password? Eddie Valiant: Walt sent me.
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.
The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy.
