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If education is the key, then the teacher is the hand that holds the key! How can the key alone open a door? We must always care for teachers!

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

My big advert was for ketchup. I come home from school, cook my brother and sister their dinner, ride my bike in the garden. Remember that one? People cried at that advert. It won awards. I was 12.

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.

I wouldn't want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn't for the life of me do the job in real life.

Mind you, O Mighty Soldier, you are the guardian of humanity's destiny - you are the shield and the sword of our species in the road ahead.

To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives: the fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.

People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

[God] is a kind of perpetual critique of instrumental reason.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false. To admit that the false has any standing in court, that it ought to be handled gently because millions of morons cherish it and thousands of quacks make their livings propagating it—to admit this, as the more fatuous of the reconcilers of science and religion inevitably do, is to abandon a just cause to its enemies, cravenly and without excuse.

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

I can tell you, to me, Lady Gaga is Madonna with diarrhea.