The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It’s part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
Movies either work or they don’t work and they’re either funny or they’re not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.
I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I’m doing what I do best.
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women’s’ point of view.
In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don’t think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.
I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
The trouble with movies as a business is that it’s an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it’s a business.
I’ve always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
It’s great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you’re leaving your other life behind.
And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.
I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.
For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal.
What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He’s been bridging divisions his whole life.
I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
The real difference between a man’s scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
My mom didn’t ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
There’ll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.