If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.
Whatever we do toward energy independence has to be done in the context of using less resources.
Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs.
When my office asked the regional HHS office to participate in an enrollment event - something they routinely have done for previous ACA and Medicare Part D enrollment - they said no. They were prohibited from doing so - under orders from the Trump Administration.
I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.
We're identical twins. We've done mostly everything together our entire lives. We own our companies together. As kids we were doing the same jobs.
Bill Clinton has done some incredibly reckless, irresponsible things as president. But his campaign to expand Medicare entitlements has to rank among the worst.
We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox.
I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit.
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.
I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
Every opinion must be suffered. One must listen to what may be rousing, annoying, even shocking, but it must be done honestly, fairly and with equanimity, respecting the rights of every Member of the Knesset and each faction, guarding the minority in the face of the predatory majority.
Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'
We have to make the bureaucracy accountable to the people. It is not something esoteric, it can be done.
Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something we might otherwise miss.
If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.
If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.
I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.
