I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
Most solo artists go out on their own and put their name on the record. I prefer to create little alternative universes.
People remain unknowable to us, even people that we're very close to. And I think the same goes for our own selves.
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.
To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.
Development in this county is always going to be an issue. Until development and zoning are handled on a regional basis, rather than each municipality left to its own devices, we will suffer from developers having the upper hand in suits and in front of zoning boards.
When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.
I have started exploring my own life and have started valuing myself. I have started valuing my individuality.
I wanted to find a way to intelligently argue that we should be valuing our own skills and talents instead of valuing the number of people we can get to look at us.
Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.
I think that everybody has their own interpretations of what it means to be American. But from my vantage point, being black and successful in the Unites States of America is the epitome of being American.
In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.
From his first hours as pope, Francis has re-enacted or spoken of the great pastoral transformation of Vatican II as his own agenda.
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.
In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.
We've become accustomed to repurposing and living vicariously through other people's work instead of going out and making our own.
