Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn’t buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love.
It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away from you. On one level, I used to resent it.
People think I'm smarter than I am.
I've never considered myself cool, and I don't think I ever will be. Honestly, it's better that way. It's much less pressure.
There's a reason that girls cut off all their Barbie doll's hair and dye it and do things like that. I destroyed my Barbie dolls, and I know other girls did as well. And that's kind of the way they see kids movies and child actors in kids movies, as something that you've moved on from. It's babyish.
People view child actors the same way that girls treat their Barbie dolls.
There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.
I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that's really what's going on everywhere.
God never does anything accidentally.