I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.
And I certainly don’t like the white supremacists and those whose religion is hating the Jews, period.
In this very uncertain time for the media, serious investigative reporting - the expensive, time-consuming stuff - is under enormous pressure at newspapers and other commercial news organizations. Non-profits such as the Center for Public Integrity are taking on this vital work and without them the prospects for investigative reporting would be even more dire. The Center has been properly celebrated for its careful, rigorous work, and to my mind it has now ascended to the status of national treasure.
I usually go to bed pretty late but sleep a full cycle (8 hours).
Most people in the media aren't bad people. They just go along to get along and it's the group culture and the conditioning. As soon as they see that things are wrong, some of them will start speaking out and making a stand.
I do a real analysis of who actually owns things - it’s the British…the Dutch…then it’s the Arabs…then it’s the French…then it’s the Jews…and then, on down the line.
The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.
The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder. . . What power spiritual reading has to lead to a change of course, and to make even worldly people enter into the way of perfection.
The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries. Where she is debased, society is debased; where she is morally pure and enlightened, society will be proportionately elevated.
Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast. . . Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.
Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.