Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.
Between 1961 and 1982, 'The Catcher in the Rye' was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. But all the talk about banning it made me rush out to find it.
The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
I'm still a really shy performer and can't wear high heels and need to be with bare feet.
I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.
I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
I went through a lot of battles in high school.
People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.
The benchmark of quality I go for is pretty high.
I went to Detroit Public Schools: Harms Elementary, Bennett, which is now called Phoenix Academy. This is all in Southwest Detroit. I graduated from Southwestern High School, so I'm a 'Prospector,' which is what we used to call each other.
I have high hopes for Renee Ballard's literary life, and it can't start out better than the top of 'USA TODAY''s best-seller list.
I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.
I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.
I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.
I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites, most of the web is chock full of popup ads and other interruptive come-ons. It's nearly impossible to find signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap.
