A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
Let me be clear. 'The Good Father' isn't a handbook on how to assassinate the president.
I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.
Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can 'the consent of the governed' be given if the right to vote be denied?
As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945.
Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.
Reasonable people can disagree about the authorities the NSA should have, when it's appropriate for the CIA to use drone strikes, and how assertive U.S. foreign policy and intelligence should be.
Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.
I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.
The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.
It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
It takes an astronaut so long to get to space - that's how long it takes to catch up on my music.
The value of Bitcoin is astronomical, but the price goes all over the place as a million buyers and sellers try to figure out what that value is and how likely it is to manifest.
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?
How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!
No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.
The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.
