Over my career, I've had to adjust my game.
The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.
By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.
National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.
Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
In the battle of substance over flash, few to none of the Al Jazeera correspondents are recognizable to U.S. audiences. Many have foreign names and accents; none have best-selling books atop the list or can be heard pounding their shoes on the nightly infotainment podium.
If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.
Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie.
There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.
Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft's growth - if not its profit engine - stalled for years, causing its stock to idle, too.
I've put out records over the years, whether it's with Blackfield or No-Man or Bass Communion or Porcupine Tree, that are pop records, ambient records, metal records, singer-songwriter records.