I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.
I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker.
Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.
Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.
The transponder requirements have three major sections, namely the chip; the antenna; and the assembly of the chip and the antenna onto the goods being labelled.
I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
I was in an interdisciplinary major - which was a new thing then - which was psychology, sociology, anthropology, and biology, which is really sort of the study of the human being.
Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.
I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering consequences for anti-American speech on the web in China.
This idea of me being anti-Semitic is the most ludicrous of them all.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Knowledge and engagement are a powerful antidote to forces that often work against our kids being healthy.
I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.
