The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
I don't mind if people are saying nasty things about me behind my back - I just don't want to know about them.
To have an opportunity to fight for the title, you have to prove you deserve it against top opponents.
Zoologists can also be involved in conservation, protecting endangered animals and their habitats.
Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.
Zombies, mummies - they're disgusting and gross. You don't want to make out with a mummy. At least, I don't.
Zombies to me don't represent anything in particular. They are a global disaster that people don't know how to deal with.
Zombies are my ticket to ride! It's how I get a deal! I don't care what they are. I don't care where they came from.