I am simply not prepared to stand back and watch my country fall off a cliff edge. If that means voting against my party, so be it.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
You can't erase Bill Cosby's contributions. That's the conflict. He's one of the most influential comedians of all time, and 'The Cosby Show' is one of the most influential sitcoms ever. When I watched as a kid, I wanted Cliff to be my dad. Everybody did.
'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don't think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.
It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013.
I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.
When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.
In English, I never did the reading when it was assigned. If a paper was due on Friday, my attitude was, read half the book on Tuesday, the second half on Wednesday, and write the paper Thursday night. Sometimes, I'd just read the Cliff's Notes and skip the book altogether.
I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book. I should probably read it.'
