A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.
Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.
Americans are willing to cheer on politicians who denounce bureaucratic overreach and job-killing red tape in abstract terms. But they turn out to like specific regulations against toxic chemicals in their drinking water.
I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.
I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.
I have long believed that there is no finer group than those who serve in the Department of Justice.
I'd go into a department store now and buy everything. It's who I am. I just love cosmetics.
In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind.
These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.
I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster - close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were.
