There are people on the left who say, Look, we can't let these atrocities go on, so let's enter the war and get rid of Bashar Assad. The problem with that is you get into a nuclear war with Russia. And Syria gets wiped out along with everything else. So, it's fine to say, OK, let's stop the crimes, but how exactly?
A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with my son. ' They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents' age.
There are two kinds of comments that I get. One is, oh, you're such a natural up there, and the other one is, you're working hard up there. And the ones who say I'm working hard are teachers, they're the educators; they're the people who are the performers. It's a huge investment of my psycho-emotional energy to pull that off and to make it look smooth.
If this universe is the House of God, then I must say it is quite a dark house despite several hundred billion suns!
A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?
I think that they are hung up on, you know, that people cheat and we don't enforce the laws, and I think that's correct. But I don't think people want to just say, "We're not going to trade with anybody. "
Play small ball. Get back to basics. I would say that you need to be a conservative, but you need to maintain your independent streak.
Don't say the words I wanted to hear from Ren.
So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so
I find myself in situations a lot where I have to say to someone, "This can be better," and it's hard to say that.
How can you say you are peaceful if you are still identified with mind?
You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan.
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
It's important to me to say what I really mean.
If you aren’t going to say something directly to someone’s face, than don’t use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense of bravery that people get when they are anonymous that gives the blogosphere a bad reputation.
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to. . . do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.
In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.
I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a much stronger sense of what they wanted to hear, than what I was willing to give them, and I guess there was no way to say, "Well why don't you write your scene around my music?" Because that's just cocky and awful.
I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.
Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse.