Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.
We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that.
As I explain at some length in my book 'Energy Victory,' during World War II, the American strength in oil production was a decisive advantage for the Allies. Airplanes, ships, and tanks all ran on oil, and we controlled the supply.
The idea that America, whose oil production has been declining for the past 40 years, is now on track to become the world's biggest producer by 2015 is still hard to grasp.
Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.
The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures themselves against. If we lose the BBC, it won't be quite as bad as losing the royal family, but an integral part of this country will have gone. But then, I'm an old guy.
Moving is easy, exciting, an adventure - when you're young. Later, not so much. I love Massachusetts, my old home. Sometimes, late at night, I even study the real estate ads in my old hometown. But it's not even a fantasy. My parents are both gone. The world I left doesn't exist anymore. Neither does the person I was.
I have this idea of myself that I decided when I was 12 about who I am and how I come across and what the world is like. And if I have changed or the world has changed, I don't even notice sometimes because I'm holding on to these old ideas. I am more confident - the music is proof. But I can see the change there much easier than I do as a human.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
I hate old people, I hate children. I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.
If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.
I really want to have a possibility of going into the Hall of Fame one day. I think that's huge with a lot of baseball writers and old school guys. Of course, that's not the main goal - the main goal is winning a World Series. Hall of Fame is so far away. It's just something I've always thought about doing. I want to be as clean as I can.
Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.
It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.
We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.
The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering conventions. The old ways of painting, writing, sculpting, and composing no longer seemed adequate to capture the world.
In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.
Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?
