I have no sense of patriotism but I do have a sense of community.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism that sort of thing.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

Well the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

Heroism on command senseless violence and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Honestly I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense but I always liked the kind of big questions.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean there's a certain patience a certain discipline I think that religion helps you achieve.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys not the hassles the love not the disappointments the common sense not the complexities.

It's a great mistake I think to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not Nature is party to all our deals and decisions and she has more votes a longer memory and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Good breeding is the result of good sense some good nature and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise are good nature truth good sense and good breeding.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes every four minutes.

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows of making an appearance every now and then and writing music and I don't really have to do much else.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself in a sense in the mid 1960s really when I first heard composers like Terry Riley and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

Musicians are there in front of you and the spectators sense their tension which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.