To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
Category Archive: January 17
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, ‘Why should somebody be able to pollute the air, which belongs to all of us, or destroy a river or a waterway, which is supposed to belong to the whole community?’
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?
Obama came in really wanting to change things, but he hit a wall of corporate money, oil and coal money: when he tried to pass the Cap and Trade system of pharmaceutical money, when he tried to pass the Obamacare – which, of course, then got watered down into a much less effective, much less economical, program.
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
There’s many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.