From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.

Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.

Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.

This place is full of unwritten rules.

Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.

The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.

For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.

I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.

It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.

Live in order to be-not just for becoming.

Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory.

It's not about failure it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres still an affection for it.

If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you're going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes.

It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.

All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.

The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.

I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.