Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.

Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.

What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that out and keep trying.

I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

While looking foward let go of the past be carefree and life will be a blast.

Mentally and physically, I find I can play with these people.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Bad guys have always been my bag... I look mean without even trying.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.

When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home.

I've always had strong ties with Delhi, and I do stay in touch with my friends and periodically visit the capital. I started my schooling at St. Columbus High School before I went to Mayo College. Delhi, for me, is a historical city with all its beautiful monuments.

Pageants were an amazing platform that gave a little girl like me from the mountains of my beautiful Puerto Rico a chance to travel, explore the world, meet amazing people, work for great charities and be a voice to empower women wherever I went. For all those things, I am grateful.

In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.

After a breakup it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle but its always a period of self priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times theyre right in front of your face and theyre really difficult but we must make them.

Obamacare is a perfect tool to crush free enterprise and force all Americans into a socialist health care system.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet you were not pretending to love it.

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.