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“As I get older, everything feels like it's fundamentally connected, and once you've accepted the idea that business is right, and the free market - though there's never really been one - is right, then everything else just follows naturally from there.”
Source : Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008.
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“The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.”
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“He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor.”
Source : Robert Scheer (2006). “Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush”, p.77, Akashic Books
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“Every time I see myself in print or on TV, I feel like a little white girl. I feel fat.”
Source : Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.
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“One is never just a teacher: One is always - even if not consciously - an advocate of a point of view, a critic of certain positions, an exemplar of someone trying to communicate, a purveyor of images, a practitioner of behavioral standards, a person dealing with, and indeed responsible for, others in common tasks. In teaching, at least, the role of moral agent is inescapable.”
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“Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun!”
Source : "The Giver Star Odeya Rush Dishes About Life On Set With Taylor Swift - Plus, See The Brand New Trailer!" by Alex Abel, www.seventeen.com. June 4, 2014.
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“I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally.”
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“Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.”