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I guess my overall life plan is to think about issues that concern me and try to use culture generally to make sense of them. I'm more worried that I'm going to die before I've had time. ”
Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human. ”
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. ”
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world. ”
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me. ”
I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover. ”
Demonstrations must be dignified and nonviolent, as the overwhelming protests in Ferguson and Staten Island have been. Do not confuse anarchists who don't want the system to work and thugs who want to exploit a situation with the majority who from day one have operated with impeccable nonviolence and clear goals. ”
My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order. ”
When it comes down to it, I'm thinking about football all the time. When I'm on the golf course, I'm thinking about it. It's never out of your brain. ”
Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn't work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well. ”