Remembering growing up on U.S. Army bases stateside and abroad, the Star-Spangled Banner was played at important occasions... and often. It was the first song I learned the lyrics to.

I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

The unspoken word never does harm.

Everything I've designed is intended not to match perfectly but to sit together in harmony, to add flair and personality to any room.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

In high school, I enlisted in the Army and served in the 25th Infantry Division.

The unspoken word never does harm.

Everything I've designed is intended not to match perfectly but to sit together in harmony, to add flair and personality to any room.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

In high school, I enlisted in the Army and served in the 25th Infantry Division.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Connecticut farmers keep our economy running.

I have not worked with farmers. I have not worked with prisoners. I have only worked with human beings. I didn't see anybody as anything other than that.

In the ten years leading up to 2013, quinoa prices nearly tripled on the back of skyrocketing international demand for the latest 'superfood'. The grain had traditionally been cultivated in the high Andean plateau, principally for household consumption. But as prices rose, farmers' incentive to sell it as a cash crop grew.

For my 9th birthday, my only wish was to eat like a farmer boy. I had devoured 'The Little House on the Prairie' book series and wanted to be like Almanzo Wilder, the protagonist of 'Farmer Boy,' one of the later installments in the 'Little House' series.

I was in high school and 9/11 happened. My boyfriend joined the army and I was extremely disgusted with this war fervour.

I lead a charmed life.

In my band, I'm the band leader. As a band leader, our job is to bring harmony to the voices we have on stage.

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.

Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them.