When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it. " Nothing is ever broken.
Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.
It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else suffered the same secret fears and inadequacies as I, and that feeling alone and inferior was actually the great valent bond between us all. I wish I’d been smart enough to understand that when I was an adolescent.
When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me.
Actually, when they have celebrity look-alikes, Im always put up there with Joe Torre.
All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections. ' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.
When you think about it, 12:15 P. M. is actually 11:75 A. M.
I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?
The movement that appears to be put together and led by Trump actually existed before Trump came along. The people fed up with the Republican Party, the Tea Party types, the people fed up with the Republican Washington establishment, Democrats included.
Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that it has finally renounced even the task of passing judgment on man's actions and way of life. Reason has turned them over for ultimate sanction to the conflicting interests to which our world actually seems abandoned.
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. . . . What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live.
Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.
When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.
Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
Actually, there is no more important task for a leader than to pick people. To make sure you have the very best people working for you.
About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published, I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories. There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book. SFWW-I is that book. It's the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction.
Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I'll kill you. I mean it.
If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.