The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
The idea of being Treasury secretary in the abstract appealed to me, but my initial inclination was that it wasn't right for me to take that step.
I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women.
I've been trying to learn to ski for years, but there's something about being 6-foot-5 and falling that's not appealing.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.
I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my school where I could see it.
Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
What hasn't surprised me is that audiences, as we found starting with box sets, want control, to decide how they watch it. Appointment viewing is slowly being put slightly behind.
