So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
Twitter is a place where there is extreme vitriol at all times.
[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.
If you spoke to me in Zulu, I replied to you in Zulu. If you spoke to me in Tswana, I replied to you in Tswana. Maybe I didn't look like you, but if I spoke like you, I was you.
Now everyone has eyes, and now everyone has evidence. That's really changed how we tell the news and what we get from it.
There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.
People should always be wary of that because the precedent is set. And it's so much easier to build on a foundation than it is something that doesn't exist. So you see it as something that's happening to people that are not you. And then it expands, and it expands further. And then, one day, you're on a registry.
I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.
[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.
When I work out, I have energy and feel good about myself.
Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.