Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much cannot get better at it.
I don't really understand it - marriage.
It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know, I felt very lonely with some of the issues that I had or history that I had. And when I shared about it, I found that others had it, too.
Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.
Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.
You're only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I'm funny about it.
When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people who earn less than average have the deficiency , or the greater part of it, turned over to them in hand-outs and doles, the production of all must sharply decline; for the energetic and able who lose their incentive to produce more than the average, and the slothful and unskilled lose their incentive to improve their condition.
I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.
Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.
I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.