I feel that between my experience and my mother's breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.
Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week at a national citizenship conference I organize thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.
I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience what goes on inside someone's head that being all they really know of the world.
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
When I was 12 years old someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.
If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience so as much as someone can tell you things you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.
Jackie Robinson as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality he was exemplary.
There are nuclear weapons in China Iran Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
The truth is in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
If someone is going down the wrong road he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
If you choose not to pursue your dreams you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's.
I want to find someone who's really into something like I'm really into something so that I can support them and we can both cheer each other on. I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.
I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me who came from nowhere.
People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.
'The Cut' is going to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime and help that person achieve his or her dreams.
I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue - a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal.
It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can and someone's trotting behind you just out of range trying to grab onto you.
I was always someone who lived in the future all the time it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.
There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night and you don't know what I'm dreaming.
I'm not certain but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future and she had dreams that came true.
As you look back at your life there are just a million different things that have happened just in the right way to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know someone has all that under control.
I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.