I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.
Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.
New Rule: The rest of the world can go back to being completely jealous of America. Our majority white country just freely elected a black president, something no other democracy has ever done. Take that Canada! Where's your nubian warrior president? Your head of state is a boring white dude named Steven Harper, and mine is a kick-ass black ninja named Barack Hussein Obama!
In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.
I'm a huge fan of Jesus Culture. I absolutely love them. I listen to them a lot. My wife loves them as well. I'm unashamedly a Jesus Culture fan. I love the spontaneity. They'll play a song and it will go for like 25 minutes. That kind of worship, and how they lead people into the presence of God, is just awesome.