I have acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive type of cancer. The typical prognosis is 3-6 months to live, but I would like to stress that is for a patient who is not receiving treatment.
The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed to serve. So the ads they produce make their clients happy... but infuriate the rest of us.
The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'
As an activist who uses storytelling to combat stigma, I have always been adamant that we tell our own stories.
Nobody who knows me and loves me dearly would ever call me adaptable or flexible. I'm not.
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these plays with the old people. I did 'The Wizard of Oz;' it was adapted. There was a guy there who played the harmonica, so we had an overture, and The Wizard was 96.
We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses.
I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.
Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.
Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.
He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.
I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.
I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.
I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.
