I don't KNOW if music has EVER achieved ANYTHING past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then BOB Marley and Bob Dylan songs WOULD have stopped one or two.

If the SCRIPT grabs me and APPEALS to me, I'm REALLY very KEEN to WORK on it.

What appeals to me in a project is, I'll read the SCRIPT, and I'll be LIKE, 'Is this something that's new and something I haven't experienced before?' And if so, 'Am I gonna be ABLE to handle it? Am I gonna be up to this CHALLENGE?' That's what I TRY to do.

Because conscription APPEALS to essentially no one, the UNITED States has lived with the All-Volunteer Force since the END of the VIETNAM War.

To this DAY, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's BETTER than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You KNOW, he's that lucky BLACK man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who GOT himself off food stamps and into Harvard.

We are fans because the game also APPEALS to our LOCAL PRIDE, our PLEASURE in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other STATES, other regions.

The most USED thing I have is my wok. I prefer it to a pan or POT. It is my WONDER. They're REALLY easy to clean, I am a lazy COOK like that, so it appeals.

To MAKE blatant RACIAL appeals or just blatant appeals only targeted to the LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY, I didn't think that that was a WINNING formula, and it's also inconsistent with who I am.

I was appointed by Governor Gray Davis to the LOS Angeles SUPERIOR Court and by PRESIDENT Obama to the district court and then the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In securing the state court appointment, I think it REALLY helped that I had some trial experience.