Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.
I love Israel because Israel is a democratic country.
High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from bone and therefore decreased bone density.
I don't want to act as though my deployment was particularly rough, because it wasn't. I had a very mild deployment; I was a staff officer.
Monetary contractions are attractive as the key shocks in the 1929-1933 years, and in other severe depressions, because there do not seem to be any other candidates.
When I was first named as Deputy Prime Minister, there was a feeling of shock that I should be chosen because I was labeled as being an ultra and very anti-Chinese.
I've been a Fellow in a number of companies: Xerox, Apple, Disney, HP. There are certain similarities because all the Fellows programs were derived from IBM's, which itself was derived from the MIT 'Institute Professor' program.
One of the arrangements I'm really proud of is '21 Guns' because the chorus has this descending bass line with a suspended type of progression that immediately screamed 'Bach' to me.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.
In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.
I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding school in Devon and I suffered from dyslexia quite badly, but they had a very good department there which specialised in it.
Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.
My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle.
Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.
Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.
