Form Quotes - Page 27

[My early performance work] started by being the activity of a person, any person, like any other - but once that person became photographed it became a specialized person, the object of a personality cult.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

I am myself. That is not enough.

One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society . . . . What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?

I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee.

If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

Ideas are information taking shape.

God is without visible form, yet in the heart, God is revealed.

Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.

Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.