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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics
The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.
In practice, conservatives are no less inclined than liberals to adopt superior stances or to tell people how to live their lives.
Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.
We were really responsive. It was very personalized for the die-hards that did watch, and I thought that would be a big draw, too.
I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna.
I think everybody who commits a violent killing is in some way crazy. But that doesn't mean we can let them off the hook for that.
Peter Mandelson is one of the most odious, self-satisfied, misogynistic men I have ever met. Compellingly, fascinatingly horrible.
My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.
Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.
Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.
The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.
We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.
Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.
There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.
I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.
I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.
I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.
The author's mentor advises the NAKED method of breaking the ice at the first meeting: Name, Address, Kin, Experience, and Dreams.
The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.
A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.
You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.
Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.
The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.
There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.
If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.
The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier.
Hillary Clinton is also not a very exciting, inspiring candidate to a lot of the left-leaning Democratic base, especially in Iowa.
All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.
Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.
I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.
The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.
I think we are drawn to anti-heroes because that is what most of us are most of the time and it is good to see that we are heroic.
Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world.
According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.
The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.
Sometimes, the experiences that tell you what you don't want to do are as important as those that tell you what you do want to do.
What's extraordinary about Cobra Mist, and so much of what went on at Orford, was that the public were completely oblivious to it.
In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.
The Jews run all the banks. Well, we do. The Jews run the media. Well, we do. You know, I mean they're right about all that stuff.