Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
I have been inspired by Martin Luther King and how he inspired a movement. I have learned that a cause must be organic; if it is to have an impact it must belong to those who join the movement and not those who lead it.
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
If it wasn't for Al Kooper, there might not be a Lynyrd Skynyrd. He's the one who found us at Pinocchio's in Atlanta, Georgia, and signed us to Sounds Of The South through MCA, brought the band to attention.
Of course Jack Ma was the guy who impressed me.
Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.
'Madame Bovary' advanced slowly, as slowly as it would have to have, given an author who held himself accountable to each word, that it be the right word, of which there could be only one.
In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.
Even Cristiano Ronaldo, who has won two Ballons d'Or with Real Madrid, receives whistles from the Bernabeu.
Maggie is my sister-in-law, married to my brother David. She is a defense attorney who devotes 25 percent of her practice to pro bono wrongful-incarceration cases.
I looked up to Magic Johnson a lot. He was a tall point guard who found his teammates and had a good time.
I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.
Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.
