When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
At our production company, the trademark dish - and this sounds particularly revolting - is curried pickled herring.
From our group, we've had joint ventures with a lot of international companies: Procter & Gamble, General Electric, Sara Lee, currently with Hershey's and Tyson. We've learned a lot of the best practices.
Every season, we spend what really should be our hiatus, and what really should be me relaxing on a beach, planning out the whole season.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.
It's extremely important for our banks to have more capital, higher quality capital.
Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.
As the mayor of London, my highest priority is keeping Londoners and visitors to our city safe from harm.
Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.
Big money has hijacked our politics.
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
One of our priorities is to have an enabling environment for private investment, both domestic and foreign investment, and that means we are going to officially combat corruption because we believe that this scourge, this illness, hinders our efforts to attract private investors.
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.
We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
We were told not to turn our hobby into our job, but to turn our job into our hobby. As kids, we were told not to pursue our dreams!
