I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.
Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.
The amusements of broadcast consist mainly of songs, stories, and games, just as in tribal life. The songs and stories are mostly about courtship, the games mostly played by men, just as in tribal life.
When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.
How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?
We are as gods and might as well get good at it.
If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.
Stop…stop, that’s the next generation of fans… How dare you pass judgment on those 12-year-old girls who like vampires! They need to be encouraged because in six years they’ll be 18-year-old girls who like vampires and are into all sorts of goth-permissive and whatnot. Don’t Poo-poo it. There’s a plan, and it’s working.
I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle. ' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.