What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.
Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.
Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.
Under the principle of equality, we should get as close to respecting equal votes of every citizen as we can, given our constitutional structure. And I think if we did that, then the will of the people would not be overturned.
We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut. "
…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter the course of his life, and bring a fledgeling nation to the brink of collapse. I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.
Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them & nobody ever takes note of it 'cause it's not the answer they wanted to hear-what they want to hear is here's how you get an agent, here's how you write a script, here's how you do this-but I always say, “Be so good they can't ignore you. ” If somebody's thinking, “How can I be really good?” people are going to come to you. It's much easier doing it that way than going to cocktail parties.
[My son] Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.
It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing.