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We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus.
There's part of you that, when you show up for work, you kick into professional mode and try to do your absolute best.
When you see that the head of human resources is sitting in the meeting you've been called into, it's not a good sign.
As colonial puppeteer and successful restorer of Russia as imperial superpower, Mr. Putin is Stalin's consummate heir.
Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.
I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.
Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.
Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.
If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.
My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.
If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.
Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.
Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.
It's hard to be in a bad mood when you're walking around looking like you're about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.
The Unites States of America continues to represent life, liberty, and freedom. We believe in hard work and capitalism.
Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.
REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
The Senate gathered to say goodbye to Vice President Joe Biden. Biden has been a presence there for more than 40 years.
Reports by Politico, Bloomberg and other news outlets have raised inconsistencies in Melania Trump's immigration story.
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.
Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective.
Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.
Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.
Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.
Perhaps the reason Trump voters are so frequently the subject of caricature is that they so frequently conform to type.
The people we need to hear from most are the ones who make themselves heard least - except, of course, on Election Day.
If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
It is Patrick the Legend, of course, who is most engaging and comes to us as something of a happy Celtic party monster.
The scientific evidence to support their belief that inhaling other people's smoke causes cancer simply does not exist.
The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he`s at a high point right now.
I have covered Pelosi for years, and always wondered how she learned to operate and excel in politics the way she does.
We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.
Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.