I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
Sometimes dirty can come off really cute or come off 'I don't even want you to touch me.'
Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.
This is what happens when you get old and have a couple of bucks. You go back and try to be young again.
If people enjoy my profile from the privacy of their own home, that's entirely up to you.
Judge me on what I do and I think you will be pleased and proud of me.
My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.
You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.
Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.
I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.
In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.
If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
I don't think you can be successful in television without appealing to women. I don't think it's possible. I think that men like women. It doesn't really matter what they do - they love anything. But women don't necessarily like every woman, so I think that's a challenge to get the female audience to not only relate to you but also like you.
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.
I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
Family relationships are just so fascinating - how they shape you as a person, how you can wound each other, how you're imprinted in a way by your family and the conditions under which you grow up.
Humans should always exercise and watch what they eat. So with your pet, make sure they get enough exercise, make sure they're getting fed at the same time every day and getting the nutrition they need. And make sure they get a lot of love and attention you both need. That's why you have them!
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
My poor mother. Every time I get a job, she asks, 'Am I gonna have to watch you kiss someone again in this one?' and I say, 'You're probably gonna have to watch me kiss someone in most of them, Mom.'
To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
When you're pregnant, things - at least for me - get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth.
You do what you need to if you're serious about playing great golf.
They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'
In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.
Making the leap from Monsanto's business practices - whatever you may think of them - to the 'dangers' of GM foods is a mistake in logical reasoning. It is akin to saying landscape paintings are potentially evil because the painter was a serial killer.
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.
