Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades.
There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.
The Internet has become a breeding ground for the paranormal and being able to share evidence. I mean, there are ghost-hunting apps for your iPhone.
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
We are all equal not because we partake in some peculiar nature or because we share in the same credo of unreasoned beliefs, but because we take it that no thinking being is incapable of seeing reason.
There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.
The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.
I'm not a huge party girl. When I turned 18, the thing I was most excited about was being able to vote for the first time.
We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'
'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.
I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen.
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.
At Wikinvest, which got renamed Sigfig, we were constantly just two or three months away from not being able to make payroll.
