Most Americans agree that technology is going to eliminate many more jobs than it is going to create.
Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.
I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more.
I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
For a while under Donald Trump, it was possible to believe that we could go back to a more functional, less rancorous time. This desire was expressed most eloquently at John McCainβs funeral services.
I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
I think the most difficult thing that has had to happen in South Africa for the previously disadvantaged communities is they had to reconcile that the oppressor has been enriched and the establishment is now making five or 10 times more profit than they were during the time the economic embargo was on them.
We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons.
Embarking upon war is always dangerous for national leaders because it makes them more than ever at the mercy of events. When domestic opinion is acutely divided, however, war can be politically lethal for its makers.
My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that.
I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience.
If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut.
