K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.
One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It's so important to get back up again.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground.
My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.
There are very few things I've done just twice in my life, 40 years apart, and one is to backpack on the Pacific Crest Trail across the California/Oregon border.
I refuse to say things behind people's backs.
The mind does different things in performance, and conscious thought sometimes takes a backseat.
Design shouldn't have to take a backseat to sustainability and making things responsibly.
I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we really could replace chemical factories with bacteria.
There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.
I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.
The worst thing is the blank page at the start. Then the horrible things written on the blank page. Then deciding whether or not to throw out those horrible things: lame scenes, lame characters, bad ideas.
He does great things on the pitch but the coach Van Gaal was a bad man.
What is feminism? We are just asking for equal opportunities, nothing beyond that. It doesn't mean that you cannot be pretty or you cannot cook or you can't do a whole lot of things. Feminism's got a bad rap; that's it.
Bad taste is not illegal. I always got my first laughs as a kid by saying inappropriate things. That's always how we're going to get our laughs as comics.
It's not a bad thing to be able to do many things onstage. If you're an entertainer, you should be able to entertain. I'm proud to say that I'm not a one-trick pony.
To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing.
