I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me. I enjoy that part.
The U. N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.
Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.
Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.
My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.
The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.
If we have to go to war, we will.
[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.
I can't stop once I've started. . . . it stings!
When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by other departments of science. I conceive that this is no accident, as if one bought a top hat for a wedding, and discovered later when a fire broke out, that it could be used as a water bucket.
I've never gotten in too much trouble with alcohol. I've never had a drinking problem, really.