Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought about some reform. That is how central banking developed.
Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
I fought tooth and nail: I didn't want to learn Hebrew. My Bar Mitzvah came around, and I didn't want to read the Torah portion. I look back with a lot of chagrin about how I behaved.
The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are anything but what they are: acts of war.
I have lots of athletes in my family and they showed me how to waterski - slalom, barefoot - all that stuff.
When I was younger, I barely talked. I was scared of people. I had to learn how to cultivate that confidence.
Everything gets thrown off depending on whether the Packers are playing. I grew up in L.A., and we had a terrible quarterback, Roman Gabriel. When I was 11 years old, I fired him, I fired the Rams, and I picked a quarterback I aspired to be. That was Bart Starr. That's how long I've been a Packers fan.
I didn't realize how much people liked to bash SNL until I was on. I've always just liked it, and I've always watched it and been into it.
That's how I grew up. Just play defense - and make a basket.
I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
I'm sure we've all had that annoying experience when we desperately need a flashlight, we find one, and the batteries are out. Imagine how much money we would save and the amount of toxins leached into the soil, etc., reduced if we didn't use any batteries in flashlights!
We've all forgotten how to be original.
I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But then I had bleached hair in the front. And I used to wear - then I wanted to be a beatnik. It was hard to be a beatnik in suburban Baltimore. But I wanted to be one.
I got FL studios; I looked up how to make beats and how to record myself, and then I just started making music from there.
I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?
But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?
People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Viewing Israelis and Palestinians from a psychological perspective, they would both be seen as victims of abuse; that is how they both understandably feel, and it's how they both understandably behave. The Jewish psyche is in victimized reaction to the Holocaust, and the Palestinian psyche is in victimized reaction to the Israelis.
