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I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin' the right notes or the wrong notes.

Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.

A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least since the 1970s, when Jerry Falwell formed the Moral Majority as a vehicle for conservative Christians to muscle their way into national politics.

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

Exporting this Western model of democracy in countries that don't want it or are not ready creates disasters.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Love is sweeping the country.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

In my view, the government has ample justification to inquire about citizenship status on the census and could plainly provide rationales for doing so that would satisfy the Supreme Court.

The difference between being bound and being connected is perception.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

Congress is full of people who get reelected and reelected. How can you have urgency when there are all of those safe seats?

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.

One suffers a great deal when one has a dream but no courage to follow it than the one who does follow the dream despite the circumstances.