I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer<br>songwriter.
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.
What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.
There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected. Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.
I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singersongwriter.
When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.
He who draws. . . ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own. . . because, generally, figures or people whom you meet in the streets all have their eyes at the same level as yours, and if you make them higher or lower you will find that your portrait will not resemble them.