There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Hypocrites are more enraging than extremists, as every campaign operative knows.
My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
Beauty is for everyone, and I think that CoverGirl, being such a timeless and iconic brand, recognizing that is so important. It truly shows that we are becoming a more accepting industry.
Hip-hop has done more for race relations than most cultural icons; and I say save Martin Luther King, because his 'I Have A Dream' speech was realized when Obama was elected into office.
I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.
Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.
I actually keep having this one recurring dream where I'm a little number standing in a line of other numbers that look identical to me. Then there are more and more of these numbers that follow me, again and again and again. It's more of a nightmare.
I am much more interested in defending my ideas than defending my identities.
As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.
Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.
I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
