The dramatically different manner in which we, as a nation, responded to the crisis presented by drunk driving and the crisis caused by the emergence of crack cocaine speaks volumes about who we value, and who we view as disposable.
Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.
My coach once told me "there's no "I" in "team. " I responded there's also no "I" in "hackneyed. " Then I had to run 12 laps.
I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary. ' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.
I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line. " And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas.
As far as I'm concerned, the sheriff's department has done an excellent job in Savoy. The department has responded to the needs of our citizens, so I don't want to mess with a system that is working well for us.
I went to the butchers to buy a leg of lamb. "Is it Scotch?", I asked. "Why?" the butcher said in reply. "Are you going to talk to it or eat it?". "In that case, have you got any wild duck?". "No", he responded, "but I've got one I could aggravate for you. "
Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.
We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
One person was basically saying that feminists aren't interested in criminalizing prostitutes, that they don't want to do that. I responded that whether or not they want to, that is what is happening on the ground.
I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.
Our job is to instigate, and by the grace of God, we did that, and certain people responded to this instigation.
[T]he man who accused Richard Simmons of slapping him in an airport has dropped the assault charge. Dropped it! Upon hearing the news, Simmons sadly responded, "You mean I'm not going to prison?
I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering and my painting responded.
It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.
I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing.
I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.
I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.