A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you.
We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
If you use Facebook - as I do - Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.
I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.