Don't ever become a pessimist. . . a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.
Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.
I grew up in a working-class community. I come from a big family. I knew Donald Trump would win because I knew he is what poor Americans think a rich person looks like. And I knew that Hillary Clinton would annoy voters in their tens of millions, because she basically sucked at communicating with poor people and seemed like a person who'd been powerful and rich for decades. She was a disastrous candidate. I mean, she was up against a psychopath and she still lost. The country's thinking was beyond her, literally.
We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.
I'm an athlete. I'm strong. I'm tough. And that's how women should be. That's how they should be built.
The idea that we can operate in different times is very important for me. And it manifests in daily life or when you meditate. In a way, it's a very scientific thing that you experience for yourself, how time passes, how your body can react to time in different ways.
All the girls look good in college; I mean they're young, they're ready, they're single, they just wanna have fun.
I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war.