Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.
Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.
It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. . . . Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.
We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.
Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.
I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
Sometimes when I walk into one of my own stores, I look at the display and say, "This looks so good - I want to buy it. " Yet other times I walk in and the displays and mannequins will be all wrong, and I don't want to buy anything. When a customer walks into a store, she's looking for inspiration. So I'm tuned in to people, and I care about what they need and who they are.
The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.
There is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song -- the day of days when spring at last holds up her face to be kissed, deliberate and unabashed. On that day no wind blows either in the hills or in the mind.