Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.
We all know there are problems with Obamacare, and Washington's implementation of it has been abysmal. But rejecting Medicaid won't fix any of those things.
I wanted to do well academically. But it was equally important to do things in an effortless manner.
I still go have an acai bowl in the morning. I do the same things a 19-year-old kid would do.
It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in nature. The micro-world is inherently 'fuzzy' - the sharper the detail we wish to study, the higher the energy that is required and the bigger the accelerator that is needed.
Everyone's hip to the fact that we all do things to accentuate our looks - and it's much more accepted.
Maybe at some subconscious level, things are done to upset somebody - part of me continues to see no valid reason for many of the accepted rules of design.
We need to intentionally invest in health, in home ownership, in entrepreneurship, in access to democracy, in economic empowerment. If we don't do these things, we shouldn't be surprised that racial inequality persists because inequalities compound.
I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.
I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort of happened accidentally.
The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.
Any time I broke through the 'glass ceiling' by accomplishing things that foreigners weren't apparently able to do, they've been huge personal victories and career highlights for me.
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.
I'm not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, 'Let's all just get along.' I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.