Immanent frame — A constructed social space that frames our lives entirely within a natural (rather than supernatural) order. It is the circumscribed space of the modern social imaginary that precludes transcendence. See also immanentization.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Excarnation

Exclusive humanism

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Fullness

Immanentization

Maximal demand

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

Life is such a tragicomedy.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

I'm light and airy.

When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.

The sky is never falling...things will work out, they ALWAYS work out. Stay focused, accept everything as perfect and keep moving forward toward the direction of your goals.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.

I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

Health is the ability to be fully and consciously aware of all that contributes to your life experience and to effectively exist in that environment. It then means you see yourself as you really are.

At an incredibly divisive point in pop history Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across the board experience of mass pleasure after Bad Girls nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with Off The Wall.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever.

I answer questions the best I can.

Love makes the world go round

I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.

The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!