Trust yourself,. . dig deep down and ask yourself who you want to be? Not what, but who?
I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.
My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man. '
A pinwheel also needs wind. And with our actions, and our intentions, we can be that wind. We have to be those agents of change for the young people and their families in our communities.
The point is that any law that makes criminals out of 15 million Americans is probably not such a good idea. The point was that drug abuse isn't a criminal issue, it's a healthcare issue. And the money and manpower we spend prosecuting a surfer in San Diego might better be used fighting things that genuinely threaten our national health and safety. That was the point.
Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation?
What I want out of my career is just to work.
I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are.
I try so hard to be the best mom that I can be and usually I'm always thinking about how to better my son's life.
A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.
There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in these restless and edgy poems. Conversational and kinetic, these poems chart the traces left by the shifting overlays of the templates of literature, rock-and-roll, and contemporary culture. As each poem in Still Life attempts to fix a focus upon a scene or subject, the protean natures under view draw the poet into the eddies and complexities of reflection. This is a powerful and moving collection of poems.