J.M.W. Turner Quotes
Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants.
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.
Once you decide to do something, and you're pretty sure you're right, then you gotta go ahead and do it. Because if you piddle around, somebody else will beat you to it.
No matter what class you're from - uptown or downtown - when you're in the dancehall everyone's equal, and it's how you choose to express yourself that makes you stand out.
It's quite nice coming off doing a dark, upsetting scene. It's a relief that that's over with, and then you can get back to happy old Sophie.
I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
My role is to remind people that everyday people can make a difference. And if we get people out there doing things to make America a better place, we can bring change.
I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.
A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.
I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life
If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.
Look to the Heavens, you can look to the skies. You can find redemption staring back into your eyes.
What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well
We're too many people; that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.
We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.
The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
We've had to overcome a lot in America to become a nation of progress. We still have a lot of progress to be made.
In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.
In the dancehall world, we have crews and they battle. It's part of the entire culture surrounding dancehall.
Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.
Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever.
When you have mega-corporations that have record profits, but they don't want to share even a little bit of that with their workers, we are actually putting our communities at peril.
Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again.
I expected to have one husband and seven babies. Instead I had seven husbands and one living baby.
The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
