I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and stuff, and I loved to laugh and make people laugh.
There is no justice in following unjust laws.
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now?. . . And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?
With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.
Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.
I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack] Obama, people in their teens and twenties who were determined to make history and who were too idealistic to think that what they were trying to do might be impossible. They proved that visionary pragmatism can win over the majority. That comes from a particular place in your heart that generation Y is offering America. They just can't afford to be naive now, in terms of the ferocity of the opposition.
My arms flew up of thier own accord knoking my bag down. I grabbed hold of the desk to keep myself from falling down.
Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation. . . but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.