Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion.
It's not that, living in Pakistan, I feel an enormous constraint on how I can write and what I can say; rather, I recognize that one has to navigate these things... Am I aware of things that one could say that would be risky or that could be dangerous? Certainly I'm aware of those things.
Paul Poiret did wonderful things because he was so influenced by motifs, but Vionnet really understood the kimono and took the geometric idea to construct her clothes - and that brought such freedom into European clothes in the 1920s.
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
I'm involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert.
For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.
I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
When you're No. 1 contender for five years, and you know who's controlling things, you'll do something you're not proud of.
I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.
George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.
We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are loved continue to exist through the continuance of the One Who gave them existence, the Necessary Existent.
I refused to adopt civilian way of life and slowly influenced my civilian surroundings to do things the military way. My civilian career as an entrepreneur and founder of a defense contracting company has been an extension of my military service.
