Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.

But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

Penn Jillette

Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.

William Hazlitt

To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

Wavy Gravy

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

Gary Allan

Men should be saying I want to become a woman. The world would be a far better place if more men wanted to become women, than women wanted to become men.

Albert Halsey

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Bob Dylan

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.

Azar Nafisi

And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.

John Green

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

Thomas Kempis

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Robert H. Schuller

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

Friedrich von Schiller