I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good.
The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.
Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.
Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.
I was in middle school at a bat mitzvah, and a fashion photographer, Suzy Gorman, came up to me and asked me if I considered being a model. I did a shoot with her, and than I signed with an agency in Saint Louis.
People moan about Twitter, people being rude and trolling. Just turn it off. Life goes on.
If someone tried to take the hierarchy thing too seriously - for example, being lovely to producers but moaning to runners about the tea - that would not be accepted on 'Harry Potter'; someone would pull you aside and have a word.
Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
The history of the modern Republican Party is the story of moderates being driven out and conservatives taking over - and then of those conservatives in turn being ousted by those even further to the right.
Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now, that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs.
Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era.
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.
The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
Studying organisms at a molecular level was totally compelling because it was moving from being a naturalist, which was the 19th-century kind of science, to being very focused and really getting to the heart of these molecules.
