“Other than my marriage, the decision to get a Ph.D. was probably the best decision of my life.” Quote by James Stone
“On inequality, I contend that far too much of the nation's wealth and income is gravitating to too few. This undermines the democracy we all cherish and the overall social cohesion necessary to maintain our wonderfully successful society.” WealthDemocracySuccessfulInequalityCherish Author:James Stone
“College has become unaffordable for most of the kids who attend, and, while most of the population won't ever graduate from college, our high schools don't prepare students for that reality by providing vocational and occupational training.” RealityKidsSchoolStudentsCollegeTrainingHigh SchoolGraduates Author:James Stone
“Some major problems can be solved by our political process and our leaders. Others can be solved only when there is popular demand and insistence and politicians feel at risk of unemployment if they ignore the groundswell.” ProblemPoliticalLeaderRiskPoliticianInsistence Author:James Stone
“Free enterprise democracy has proven the best system by far for maximizing freedom, prosperity, and happiness. Dictatorship, Soviet style communism, and hereditary aristocracy have proven about the worst environments for people to achieve all three of these goals.” PeopleGoalDemocracyEnvironmentAchieveWorstStyleProsperityCommunismEnterpriseSovietDictatorship Author:James Stone
“Our educational system just doesn't work as well as it should any more. 70% of people are never going to go to college, and we don't give them the vocational or occupational training they need before we throw them into a work force where too often they find they don't fit. The 30% that do go to college find themselves graduating with debts that may cripple them for years.” PeopleGivingCollegeFitTrainingEducationalGraduates Author:James Stone
“I had to fight tooth and nail to stay in an industry where I had a lot of problems. I've gone through a lot in my life and have somehow managed by my faith and some great people around me to continue on this journey where I'm at today.” PeopleProblemTodayFightingJourneyGreat People Author:Ty Herndon
“In terms of songwriting I think it might be a circular thing. I tend to go back and forth between quieter melancholy songs and more forceful, less traditional structures. I think when I find myself leaning too far in one direction I kind of rebel against it and pull the other way.” ThinkingKindSongTermMelancholySongwritingRebel Author:Thalia Zedek
“I feel like I veer more away from technology than toward it. I'm a little scared of the direction we're going, to be honest. It feels like a sci-fi novel from the '50s, the way we can control everything and the solitude we each have in our own little bubbles, and yet we feel like we have social interactions. We're moving in a weird direction, at least.” MovingTechnologyNovelHonestSolitudeScaredBeing HonestBubblesSocial Interaction Author:Martin Starr
“I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.” KindProse Author:Juliana Hatfield
“The is a lot of anti-sexism coming from my point of view as a woman who deals with it every day. I think sexism is a form of discrimination. It is similar to other forms of discrimination. I think people should feel empowered to not take s**t from anyone.” PeopleThinkingPoint Of ViewDiscriminationSexismEmpowered Author:Juliana Hatfield