Every week, there's a different equivalent of Charlie Sheen having a breakdown. I knew about Kim Kardashian getting married - and then getting divorced - and there's no reason I should. I don't have hostility toward Kim Kardashian - just toward the people who take that stuff seriously.
I really like the risk takers. I like people who make those different choices on the carpet. I really like Charlize Theron. I think she's elegant and edgy as well. I love Zoe Saldana.
I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.
People think of the Charlotte Hornets, and they think of me.
I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed lives.
A lot of people would think I have led this easy kind of charmed life, or maybe even a fairytale in some ways. But it has been anything but that.
I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.
My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than people's imaginations.
I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I would be thrilled if the Russian people, who are so capable, had a normal country that they could chart a different future.
If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
I essentially grew up listening to Radio 1, the chart show in particular. It was a routine, as for many young people. Every Sunday, I waited patiently to be told who was on top.
Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
I believe elitism in politics is over, and a new path to achieving democracy should be charted by young people who have the most at stake in the future of our city.
It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
People still think there's sort of a debate around the Charter that politicos go into. And I get wrapped up in it, too, from time to time.
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.
It might be a shock to see me, but that's no reason for people to act crazy, and it doesn't give them license to chase me down the street.
