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.

The Internet’s distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate – the...

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

On the mathematical side, you could in principle build a society in which people were fulfilling their needs and flourishing as human beings in a higher way than in a consumer society, provided you had...

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I’ve never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

Conservatives sometimes catch a tremendous about of flak from inside the Beltway – and those groups can exert extreme pressure on those conservative members to try to get them to vote in ways that are...

The world is full of ways for people to dance. Concert dance doesn’t get its due.

In many ways, I’m incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it’s visible. It means my path has been predictable.

In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

You know you’re on stage being the life of the party and trying to get laughs, and then, in a lot of ways, you don’t have anything to give once you give it to the...

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

I have equal parts film and digital cameras in my collection. I think that there are ways to Photoshop photos so that they look like you shot them on film, but is that as rewarding?...

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.

My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that were brutal in many ways, that cared almost not...

I’ve had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don’t repeat myself.

We have three daughters, our own. And, of course, there’s nothing more frightening than something bad happening to them. And also, the thought of our children turning bad in some ways is another frightening thought.