The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
A lot of the people who have been on 'American Idol' have unfortunately not been very successful after the show is over. I would be one of the most successful contestants to not make it to the Top 12. So that would be a good statistic to throw into the show. It's what you make of it.
All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.
We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.
Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.
I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.
Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every President. I saw the figures - 34 out of 44 Presidents have called for a national day of prayer. Some of those who didn't have died in office.
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
My father was an entomologist who believed in continental drift. In the early '50s, that was regarded as nonsense. It was in the mid-'50s that it came back. Someone had thought of it 30 or 40 years earlier named Alfred Wegener, and he never got to see it come back.
I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.
Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.
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 was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
Whoever makes something, having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process... is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlement over them.
Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.
I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.
