W. M. L. Jay Quotes
Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.
Saddam Hussein has raised the amount going to suicide bombers from $10 thousand dollars to $25 thousand. What's next, a health care plan?
I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast.
I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.
The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.
Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.
Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.
Political experts are saying the reason John Kerry is doing so well is because he's 'electable.' Hey, so was Al Gore - in fact, he even got elected and it didn't help him at all.
Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.
There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it.
Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it becomes larger in size.
We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.
Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.
All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.
President Obama signed a bill preventing members of Congress from profiting from insider trading. Didn't you think that was already illegal?
I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most important part of being a photographer. The actual shooting is of lesser importance.
If you're just going to meet consumer or clients' demands, you might as well be a plumber - the work will be more frequently available.
If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.
See them demons and them omens staring at you, mind control, they want your soul. If he don't see a dollar, somebody visiting Satan
I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.
I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.
President Obama is currently on a week-long trip to Africa, where he will promote freedom, democracy, and economic opportunity. I guess he figured it hasn't worked here - so try it somewhere else.
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
Sometimes I don't know what to say; the pain never stops. The cloud never goes away, the rain never drops
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.
There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.
