What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening.
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it
Glee is more then just a show now. It's become a wonderful culture celebrating the underdog and glorifying individuality.
I never let my politics supersede my manners.
No one's tried to stab me. That's cool. I enjoy not being stabbed.
Its always important to recognize your situation and not take it for granted.
As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.
As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the world, or in himself, that he discovers. It will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know. This has always been, and always will be, poetry's office.
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
It's really easy to not be satisfied with your work, or people, or anything, but I really embrace the idea of not having to want [anything]. Not because you're denying yourself anything, but because it [everything] is already there.
Well we didn't look at it like that. We looked at it: "Why Carolyn Maloney?" Of course, we didn't know about Caroline Kennedy, but we do know and have - this is not against somebody, this is for somebody who we know has had a proven record. It's 16 years in the House, 10 years on the City Council of New York City, that she has shown her determination to pass legislation. She is - she knows how a legislature works.