We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.
Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up.
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
I'm not a person who puts things out in writing and policy prescriptions and is not intending to follow through.
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.
Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
Statistically, I'd say there are about as many gay figure skaters as there are gay football players. The majority are straight. There are just those few exceptions, and those are the ones who have gotten picked on and followed over the years.
There are footballers who are very good playing on the outside but don't know what to do inside. Then there are players who are very good inside but don't have the physique, the legs, to go outside.
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
Cows and other ruminants are worse polluters than all of the transportation in the world, so all of us who try to cut down our carbon footprint by lessening our transportation would do far better by just consuming less beef.
If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?
We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all.
