I know it's practical for career women, but sneakers with suits? Jesus couldn't possibly weep harder than I did.
The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.
I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love them.
Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution [of USA] was the first time we codified it aspirationally and wrote it down and put it up on a wall and said, "this is us. " If your father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, you don't have to be a cobbler.
Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.
Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story.
We're a leader sure, but still a member of the global community. And that's true and important and when America acts like its worst self on the global stage is when we forget that.
Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down into that great silence the more we become capable of singing that great song.
Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.
The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.
Over my career, I'd say the last 25 years; we've gone from music and computer being for 10 people in the world to having personal computers, to now being able to do amazing things on your iPhone, or with Rock Band. So, right now there's enormous capability with technology in our devices that everybody has access to.