One half who graduate from college never read another book.
Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are.
If one percent of the people who take iPad or iPhone videos of concerts watch them, I'd be very surprised.
We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.
Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But I'm not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. I'm interested in the person who can make the right decisions.
If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
Eight years ago, if I wanted to do a YouTube video, I broke out my camera and filmed everything myself and learned how to edit and kind of become a one-woman studio. But we're living in an era now, thanks to ICON, where any creator who is online, they can create in their own space.
There are only a handful of politicians who are truly great on Twitter - the rest rely on their account to release press releases.
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
There's a great op-ed piece by Kurt Johnson, who runs The List Project, that I recommend everyone read. He was talking about how he's been trying to get out of Iraq who were our allies, who are now subject to torture, and their families are being killed because of their alliance to the United States.
I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
I have been successful as an opener, but who knows, maybe I would have been more successful in the middle order.
I worked with so many comedians who became big names - so many, I can't even remember some of their names. John Byner, Totie Fields, Joan Rivers. Shecky Green at the MGM. When I started my career, my first hotel in Las Vegas was at the old Flamingo. My opening act was Bill Cosby.
I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don't I talk about race that often. I said, 'It's because I'm a neurosurgeon.' And she thought that was a strange response... I said, 'You see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.'
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
