I think, in some ways, I like it when people tell me what they’re thinking. I would rather have it that way than masquerade as if you’re totally unbiased and objective.

The Anthropocentic Age – the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet – cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have...

A friend often says I’m an old man in a young man’s husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

If I’m feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can write a screenplay about it. I can act in someone’s...

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn’t normally.

Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

Incarceration didn’t change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

The women’s movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we’ll never be able to count.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It’s one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn’t live without.

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it’s a product of the scientific revolution.

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.

Goodwill can be indicated in various ways. I raised that particular example because at that time I was in charge. Today, I’m not in a position to present other possibilities.

Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting ways to do something differently or how to improve.

The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it’s for the best.

But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

It sounds really over the top to say you’re responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many...

For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been – because I’m stared at and looked at everywhere I go.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist,...

There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.

Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it’s based on trying to reassess this notion of...

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his...

You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there’s not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers.

Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like ‘Shrek’ or ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Robin Hood’ manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.

We’ll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people’s very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

When you don’t educate the people, you’re crippling them. You are, you’re not giving them ways to survive.

Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running jams. Runners and yogis are also alike because of this tortoise shell idea,...

Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain in some ways disenfranchised relative to the other groups, or at least they...

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work,

But on this show, it’s a good question because in the 35 shows that we’ve done now, I’ve really made a consistent effort to really shadow the directors because in many ways they have to...

What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you’re creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about...

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It’s to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall – that when the play is finished, it’s done – but now I realise it’s...

Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.

If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to ‘non-believers,’ atheists would likewise seek to eliminate ‘dangerous’ believers with their ‘childish’ ways and their heads in the clouds.

Well, my take was people of Minnesota, these are good people. They’re in many ways more generous than other parts of the country. They’re better educated than other parts of the country.

Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that.

I study the ways new media shapes people’s perceptions of the world.

Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits...

I feel like in a lot of ways I can relate to the fans, just being a fan of music myself.

In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn’t for kids.

I’m endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don’t.

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.

The world has its own ways of treating us like what we will never be, but want to be. It relinquishes its grip on our souls while lulling us with the songs of freedom and...

The Gospel of Judas really has been a surprise in many ways. For one thing, there’s no other text that suggests that Judas Iscariot was an intimate, trusted disciple, one to whom Jesus revealed the...

One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.