When Czar Ivan III took a liking to the Judaizers, they were invited to Moscow, where they managed to convert so much of the court nobility in the last decades of the fifteenth century that traditionalists felt the need to counter the trend through selective burnings at the stake.

I think everybody goes through times where they're vulnerable and then times where you're confident and cocky.

We are for abstinence, not prohibition. Prohibition leads to many socio-legal problems. Wherever liquor has been prohibited, there is a tendency to consume through illegal means.

If you're not controversial, you'll never break through the din of all the commentary.

I guess I'm a romantic. Call me rough and romantic. Girls like that.

I have been through times when I would audition for roles and not make the cut.

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.

You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

I think everybody goes through times where they're vulnerable and then times where you're confident and cocky.

We are for abstinence, not prohibition. Prohibition leads to many socio-legal problems. Wherever liquor has been prohibited, there is a tendency to consume through illegal means.

If you're not controversial, you'll never break through the din of all the commentary.

I guess I'm a romantic. Call me rough and romantic. Girls like that.

I have been through times when I would audition for roles and not make the cut.

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.

You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.