When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
Radical Islam and US exceptionalism are in bed with each other. They're like lovers, methinks.
You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.
I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
A lot of people are not meant to be together.
I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.
Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.
In the United States there are only two exceptions: banks have to report deposits they suspect to be related to either terrorism or drug trafficking. But if your funds derive from trafficking women and children for sexual exploitation, for example, or from illegal arms trafficking or any other illegal activity, then banks in the US are legally free to accept your money and are not required to report your deposit to the authorities.
I should have said something. . . . But my mouth wouldn't open, and the longer I stood there in silence, the better I can to understand the problem. It wasn't that I had nothing to say to him. It was that I had too much to say.
When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night to get to sit in the first few rows for it.