These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or Leonardo DiCaprio, could possibly match the visual punch of Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed, grinning boy, goofily peeking out at us on the newsstand.
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
My mum had 14 pregnancies - but only four of us survived. We had a little sister born for a few days and she died. There had to be a funeral.
We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.
With our music, we don't want to just do one thing. We want to show all these different sides of us and all the different influences that we have.
No one came to our neighborhoods with stand-up jobs and showed us there's a different way. Maybe, had I seen different role models, maybe I'd've turned on to that.
We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
Our ability to create that one-on-one engagement with a customer is a point of differentiation and a strategic advantage for us.
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out.
My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.
We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.
The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.
Early 2000s, we get Enron, which tells us the books are dirty. And what is our repeated response? We just keep pulling the threads out of the regulatory fabric.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.
