We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.

I have to be a teacher to my daughters.

Carnie Wilson

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

H. L. Mencken

I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

Norman Granz

the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.

Sara Shepard

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

June Jordan

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

Beth Henley

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

W. Somerset Maugham

For me, music and life are all about style.

Miles Davis

Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Jacob Bronowski

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

James Hillman

Sick of lame ducks, use Cosmic Ordering and your ducks will lay golden eggs.

Stephen Richards