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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.

I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and I don't want it.

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.

'Misfits' is one of my favorite shows; I think it's a fantastic show.

I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

In the world to come they will not ask me, "Why were you not Moses?" They will ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?"

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice; and be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you.

...hopelessness can create an atmosphere where fixable problems become unfixable ones. We must work to resist this erosion in our belief in the potential of our own behavior and actions to change things.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be prepared for what comes back, especially if you don't agree with the dominant mythology.

The rule of law, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression - we cannot take them for granted. They do not exist willy-nilly across the world; they are very rare.