Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

I don’t think I’m egotistical as much as I’m taking responsibility for what I’m putting out there.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different...

I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with ‘In the Valley of Elah.’ I said, ‘Okay, this is just a murder mystery. Relax.’ And then, two thirds of the way through, I...

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.

What I really like doing is taking risks, musically.

Games are all about taking risks.

For all of life’s discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there’s another drug, and so on. So...

Just the same way I’d say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.

There’s a fine line between saying, ‘You can’t tell me what I can and can’t do,’ and taking on board people’s opinions.

The primary problem in the psychology of becoming is to account for the transformation by which the unsocialized infant becomes an adult with structured loves, hates, loyalties, and interests, capable of taking his place in...

People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we’ll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere – WiFi and WiMax in particular.

I’ve made it clear that I’m not taking special interest PAC money or accepting donations from lobbyists – ever. I want to represent the interests of the citizens.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

I’ve always negotiated the world very physically, from football to tussling at the playground to taking my clothes off.

If we were going to default, we would have decided that many months ago. It would be wrong for the Greek economy, it would be wrong for the European economy, it would make things worse...

Right now I’m taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

‘Game of Thrones’ is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.

Well, you can say there is a self driving car. I’m seeing the automation of vehicles. Really, computer-assisted driving. I think that is really interesting to us because we are taking all of the sensors...

I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India’s track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.

Would I advise early-stage companies against taking debt? One hundred percent yes.

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact.

I’m not good at taking pictures. I can’t give a good face. I crack up.

When someone puts an end to something, it doesn’t mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.

Let’s not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don’t know.

Michael is a gift from Allah, and he is taking him back. The world didn’t appreciate him.

The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn’t believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did....

My kids are my life and the thought of someone taking them away from me is my worst nightmare.

As an investment banker, I’m in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.

What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust...

I’m interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you’d see in a typical...

I used to be a fighter and I’m used to taking weight off.

And what’s interesting about the hybrids taking off is you’ve now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It’s the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these...

I would like to learn so many things: I’d like to take tennis classes, I’d like continuing vocal lessons, and I’d definitely like taking more ice skating and more tap.

My son’s taking drum lessons, and my daughter’s taking piano lessons. One day they’re going to start a band.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one’s range as a writer, one’s technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information...

On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I’d been given, not made up out of whole cloth.