Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.
I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances.
[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.
When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.
The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass it on to others and that is why the world is full of hungry people ready to teach us anything under the sun.
Time is all we have. One lifetime under this name to produce a body of work that says, This is how I saw the world. Your work is worthy of whatever time it takes.
Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most
Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.
We have self-assessment tools, computer-based tools to see how we are performing mentally in outer space and there's some also very interesting technology and work that's being funded by NRSBI to look at facial recognition to look at your patterns to see if you're experiencing stress or fatigue. It's a kind of thing that I think will gain acceptance with gradually. But it probably has more to immediate application in things like homeland security, and looking at facial recognition of people going through airports and things like that to see who's under stress.
Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.
I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions
Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion. . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.
Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine. "
No matter how far apart we are, don't forget that we're still under the same sky, both traveling to the place we once dreamed of.
There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children-unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.
Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.
There is a need for educators, young people, artists and other cultural workers to develop an educative politics in which people can address the historical, structural and ideological conditions at the core of the violence being waged by the corporate and repressive state and to make clear that government under the dictatorship of market sovereignty and power is no longer responsive to the most basic needs of young people - or most people for that matter.
I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.