Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.
Some people are drawn to a van Gogh or a Rembrandt. Some are attracted to exotic guns. Coins. Stamps. I am attracted to cars.
Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.
Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too.
I've been so honored and so lucky to work with some amazing people. I've collaborated on amazing sets and with amazing crews.
The wheels of Hollywood grind very slowly so I'm going to have some collagen or some sort of plastic surgery.
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.
I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'
I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.
I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer - my version of him - that's in his collection.
Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
When I started rhyming, my favorite rhythms were from John Coltrane and some of the things he did on sax. And certain rhythms that I hear on drums, I try to emulate with my words, dropping on the same patterns that them beats or them notes would hit.
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
Try to put our guys in different positions, try some different combinations, et cetera, to prepare us for the playoffs, which is what matters.
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
