All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.
If I see a cool chick in the street, I'll watch her going by, won't I?
I don't get 'shark' - but who cares!
I'm about to be shot 150 feet up in the air. I feel queasy!
A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar!
Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird.
Even though being a kid is kind of a carefree sort of thing for the most part, I guess there are definitely a lot of things that stick in kids' minds.
Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men havethe same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights. These rights may be wrested from the slave, but they cannot be alienated: his title to himself is as perfect now, as is that of Lyman Beecher: it is stamped on his moral being, and is, like it, imperishable.
The congressman sends out a tremendous subpoena, they want to see the e-mails, and they delete the e-mails. I can't think of anything, in terms of we're talking about, much more serious than that.
Fashion is always uncomfortable. When you get comfortable, you never get the look.
Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.