The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents lunatics generally ever dare to threaten them.

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

You cant hatelove others without lovinghating yourself first.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.

I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.

I want France to become the European hub for R&D.

When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.

The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.

I just can't stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few times at every premiere when I just have to cover my eyes when I'm up there.

The Japanese fans always send weird things.

If you are 15 minutes early, you are on time. If you are on time, you are late and if you are late, you didn't want to be there.

Romney-Ryan is likely the best matched 'team' that has been on a national ticket in a very long time.

For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.