Television has raised writing to a new low.
I want a shot for people like me to grow up and do something with themselves.
No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing without going deeper and deeper into debt.
The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.
A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.
Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.
We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this extraordinarily prosperous economy, there's something fundamentally wrong.
And on the seventh day, god stepped back and said and said, "This is my creation, perfect in every way. . . oh, dammit I left all this pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. . . Now I have to create Republicans. "
In my opinion, the best way of showing someone the best way to live life is by living it.
I was 11 when I first said I wanted to become an actress, and everyone looked at me as if I had said I wanted to go to the moon.
Things may move slow in the academic world, but I continue to move at a pace relative to the urgency of the moment, looking forward to the time when the academic world can catch up.