The competitive pressure to produce, buy, and sell to our global multi-national companies is so intense that contractors in supply chains are motivated to pay low wages, intensify exploitative conditions, keep workers fearful with insecure work contracts, or simply sack workers who have formed a union to fight back.
I'm drawn to people who look different. I'm not exploiting. I'm not making fun of them. I'm drawn to them.
I was quite intrigued by the idea of following the exploits of people who are often in the margins.
I was quite intrigued by the idea of following the exploits of people who are often in the margins. You see the negotiators, but it's usually the SWAT team or the tactical team that draw our eye.
The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.
The Ultimate Warrior was explosive, confident, heroic, and ready to get into battle. He was a character who had his own set of rules.
I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn't need pages of back story or clumsy exposition.
I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair.
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
I think obviously we need to work harder at extending the women's movement. How do women who have prepared for careers and have a child get back to the workplace and still fulfill maternal roles?
My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.
I met the most extraordinary people all over the Pacific, but especially the people in Vanuatu who, in a material sense, are the poorest people I've ever come across. They own nothing, but in a well-being sense, they are easily the wealthiest people that I've come across.
Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them!
And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
