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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008.

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.