When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.
When I was growing up, I wanted to do Letterman and I loved that live, in-studio model. I still would do something like that.
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by the time he was 22. I think 'Pigeon Feathers' was the first collection of stories I read. Only much later did I discover his non-fiction reviewing and art criticism.
Wake up, America. With a porous southern border, we have no idea who's in our country.
Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.
We deploy a full arsenal of tools against voter fraud, including long prison terms, heavy fines and deportation. We have checks and balances at all levels of the system. And we have the Department of Justice prosecutors backing us up.
They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.
When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.
You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.
The stage for our whole show is actually really interesting and a lot of fun. There's always something going on so we figure even the people who come up and don't know Big Time Rush love the show because there's always something going on, so that's what we love about it.
If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.
I have always enjoyed dressing up, but I don't do it as often as I would want to, because it's time consuming.
I've been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown's finally got the Thunder, which is really exciting, but I've still got to stick with the Lakers.
No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.
It's not the way you want to get a job, to see someone you admire and look up to and learned so much from get fired.
Just because it reads well doesn't mean it's always going to look good on screen. Then, a network or studio has to pick up the show, and then they have to order more episodes, and then people have to watch it. It could be the greatest thing on television that nobody ever watches.
Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.
There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up - the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
I've been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you're walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn't be hurt by that, you'd just think it's weird.
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.
My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.
And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors.
I always have a moment when I know I'm designing the last costume that gets made for a movie, and it's always been floating up there, but it's kind of the last one. That's always probably the hardest one for me.
As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on what I believed.
I go through cycles with my writing. I have cycles where I'm up all night and lose track of time, and then I go for months without a thing to write about. My song 'So Good, So Right' came to me while I was washing dishes after a dinner party.
As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.
Over the years, I've found myself wishing sometimes my angel would show up. I could use a little uplift, a little reminder.
