In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

Kurt Vonnegut

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

Thomas Carper

Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Max de Pree

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.

John W. Gardner

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.

Will Rogers

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Richard Dawkins

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

Vaclav Havel

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Abigail Adams

In Hollywood if you don't have happiness you send out for it.

Rex Reed

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Charles J. Givens

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Harry S. Truman