music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.
I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.
Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press. . . and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.
I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.
I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for all of it was the bisexual imagination and the androgynous imagination of the Glam era. Because that meant everybody was implicated in this uncertain sense of sexual self, and it meant that everything was unstable. I guess I'm just not that interested in stable notions of identity, whatever they are.
Macon: “It’s true. And if that doesn’t work, use the Jedi Mind Trick. But only if you really have to. ” Halley: “The what?” Macon: “The Jedi Mind Trick. ” He looked at me. “Didn’t you ever see Star Wars?
I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.