It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.
When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.
It's a pretty heavy thing that happens to me when I'm at competitions. I get so sucked in, I can't really turn it off.
The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.
I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.
Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.
Adults have pretty much made up their minds - they like you to the extent that you confirm what they already believe.
The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights to be protected from GMO contamination.
I am pretty controlled I have to say.
When it comes to video and pretty much everything else, the more personalized the content, the higher the chances of conversion.
The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.
My parents are pretty cool people.
High Noon is a pretty corny movie.
Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.
My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold.
If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.
I've read some pretty harsh criticisms of my music, but some of them I agreed with and actually sat with me.