There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.
I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.
In other relationships, it may be permissible to overpower people, but not between people who are living together. That relationship is supposed to be between equals.
Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.
Judge Aquilina did what Michigan State University officials, USA Gymnastics, and the Karoyli ranch officials did not: Immediately believed the women who had been abused, validated their lives, and ended their perpetrator's access to them and other victims.
Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?
Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
Those who didn't vote for me don't need to worry - they won't be persecuted.
I like people who are passionate, who have persevered, and who are clearly humble and not arrogant.
Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online.
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
One who is persistent will excel.
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
The one thing that I know from the personal experiences that I've had with hackers and from people in tech who are brilliant at this thing, is there's a lot of angst.
I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me.
Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.
