The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
Anybody who questions the validity of the Constitution, whether it works in the modern era, should never be president.
I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.
I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene.
Modern science developed in the context of western religious thought, was nurtured in universities first established for religious reasons, and owes some of its greatest discoveries and advances to scientists who themselves were deeply religious.
There's a whole lot of America that looks at each other and says, 'Well, there's 340 million people living in America. Isn't there somebody other than a Bush or a Clinton who can be president in these modern times?'
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.
ISIS may seem un-Islamic to President Obama, but to anybody who has read Islam's core texts, it might appear to be a fairly straightforward attempt to create a state based on Mohammed's instructions as laid down in the Koran, in hadith, and in Mohammed's own example.
We let ourselves be molded and transformed by Christ and continually pass from the side of one who destroys to that of the one who saves.
Today, when I hire, I look for people who want to be trained and molded.
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
There are certainly other female comics who are moms, but I don't know any who are actively touring with their kids. But there are more and more becoming moms, and it's awesome. I feel we're in a super sisterhood.
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.
The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
As large publishers turn into monopolies, and the MBAs who are running them - maybe editors used to run them before - are steadily tightening the screws, they feel more and more that they get to call the shots.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
