Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

Philosophy is not to think deep, but simply speak life’s basics that arise, aware and awaken people who are knowingly or unknowingly in the state of sleep.

We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.

What we need to focus on is not that we're not nominated, but that we have many more Latinos that are in prominent positions on shows all across the dial than ever before.

I spend a lot on shoes, but my favourite shoes I've had for 16 years: a pair of black Michel Perry ankle boots with gold lining.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Only when youve truly had enough suffering in your life are you able to say I dont need it anymore.

A spirtually illumined soul lives in the world yet is never contaminated by it.

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

Apparently I'm not a pro cyclist.

When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.

I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing.

There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the mantra of the United States of America.

We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.

Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.

Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?

People never lie so much as after a hunt during a war or before an election.

I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.

If you don't get trained for your SATs in America today, you are at a disadvantage. Training is expensive and a lot of kids don't get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I've grown up in.