Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.
In the wake of Animal House, all of us at the Lampoon had a lot of Hollywood opportunities. We could definitely get people to return phone calls.
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race
There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.
Not being a liberal, I have very little grasp of things that I know nothing about.
There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.
You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right or wrong - they're just not informed.
The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.
I kind of missed the whole running into each other thing. Provided a lot of excitement. " "I don't miss that," I admitted, bending over and rummaging through my bag for my notebook. "That was really embarrassing. " "It shouldn't have been. " "Easy for you to say. You're the one who got plowed. I was doing the plowing. " Cam's mouth opened. Oh my God, did I really just say that? I had.
I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay for our temperament. 'The gods don't allow us to be in their debt. ' They give us sensitiveness to beauty in all its forms but the shadow of the gift goes with it.
I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don't feel like some Quixotic idiot who says, 'We don't have to feel pain. ' No! Let's feel it, let's make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it.