I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended.
We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
Some guys seem to jump right out and win tournaments, but for me, I've been the kind of player who is getting a bit better each year.
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.
I really do try hard to be a good teammate. I can't run very fast, but I try to always run hard. I may strike out a lot, but I try to walk to set up the guys who are hitting after me.
It is the creature that stands at the center of horror movies, not those who have made it their business to bring the beast down. We're all the same.
My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.
So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.
Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.
We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.
I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that.
Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.
In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.
The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.
To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.
But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.
My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.
When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.
The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.
When a producer like Prasad, who knows people's pulse, is ready to try something new, why not me?
I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
