We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.
I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.
We don't have to settle for disgraceful politics. We don't have to settle for being as terrible as Donald Trump.
My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be something you burn to do.
I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
My mum was slightly disgruntled with cooking and being in the kitchen.
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
My father, who worked as a dishwasher, was especially anxious. He did not like being here undocumented.
Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.
I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.
There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.
There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.
When I talk about celebrities, it's not a dismantling of that human being.
The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.
Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.
Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'
I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.
