Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.
You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.
I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.
I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.
Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.
And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.
All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.
I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.
I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.
I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that way.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go.
