My hope is the Trump administration will approach Russia strategically, with a clear purpose of trying to find more common ground, but without giving up on fundamental values and principles that are at the core of the United States' foreign policy.
Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.
If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
I try to be cognisant of when and how and what I eat and get as much rest as I possibly can, as that helps the vocal cords.
Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.
We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people.
Trump erases the ability to recognize suffering and to try to understand the conditions that produce it, the ability to become a moral witness in the face of injustices. Trump erases that. Trump appeals to a population in which that becomes irrelevant. And that is so dangerous, at this particular time.
I don't try to be candy coated. I don't try to walk on eggshells. I am what I am. Love me or hate me.
You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
I've always been someone who likes to share and talk. When something happens to me I [don't] run away from it. I want to dive right into and explore it. Try to figure out why it's happening and try to figure out something good that's going to come out of it.
It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.
Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing.
I try to deliver because I don't believe that people are deliverin' the same quality of albums.
I have removed a lot of negative influence in my life and try to surround myself with positive people. I have a much more simple life than the old days.
I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.
You try for a little happiness, and what do you get? A few memories and a fat stomach!
When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.
I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique. "
I try to nap through as much of it as possible. I didn't even know about my Christmas movie until this February.