Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.
It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.
In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.
Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.
Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way.
So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around.
It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.